Feminist Companion to Mark - Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings

Brief Description: A Feminist Companion to Mark is the second volume of a new series covering the texts and history of Christian origins. There are 11 essays including: Kathleen Corley: Slaves, Servants and Prostitues: Gender and Social Class in Mark; Wendy Cotter: Marks Hero of the Twelfth Year Miracles: The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage and the raising of Jairuss Daughter (Mark 5.21-43); Joanna Dewey: Let Them Renounce Themselves and Take Up Their Cross: A Feminist Reading of Mark 8.34 in Marks Social and Narrative World; Hisako Kinukawa: Women Disciples of Jesus (15.40-41, 15.47, 16.1); Dennis MacDonald: Renowned Far and Wide: the Women who Annointed Odysseus and Jesus; Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: The Poor Widow in Mark and her Poor Rich Readers; Victoria Phillips: The Failure of the Women Who Followed Jesus in the Gospel of Mark; Ranjini Wickramaratne Rebera: The Syrophoenician Woman: A South Asian Feminist Perspective; Sharon H. Ringe: A Gentle Womans Story, Revisited: Rereading Mark 7.24-31a; and Marianne Sawicki: Making Jesus; and an introduction by the editor. Review Quotes: this collection should be essential reading for all serious students of Mark, including those few scholars who are still wont to dismiss feminist readings as a fad or political. SBL (Journal of Biblical Literature), Spring 2004Biographical Note: Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, and director of the Carpenter Program in religion, gender and sexuality in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Contributor Bio:  Levine, Amy-Jill Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at the divinity school and graduate department of religion, Vanderbilt University.