Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist Literary Reading of Mark - Softcover

Mitchell, Joan L.

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9780826413543: Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist Literary Reading of Mark

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ISBN 10: 0826413544 ISBN 13: 9780826413543

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2001

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Mitchell s book is an interesting study that engages with the silence of the female characters in Mark 16:8 and their continued muted state in the Christian canon and subsequent biblical interpretation Mitchell s work is a valuable contribution to biblical studies. - Religious Studies Review, 01/04--Liliana M. Nutu "Religious Studies Review "

"Mitchell goes beyond the hermeneutic of suspicion to employ literary and narrative approaches to the text, suggesting an alternative interpretation of the unsatisfactory original ending [of the Gospel of Mark]. Those with little experience with the jargon of the feminist hermeneutic of liberation should learn the lingo elsewhere before mining this book for its considerable fruits."
Religion Update, Publishers Weekly, November 2001
"Sister Joan gives us a feminist investigation of Mark's Gospel but equally important she show us how a careful, informed reader struggles to discover what lies behind the words of Scripture and how that discovery can lead us all to new, important insights." Carl J. Fischer, Catechist, March 2002

"The author provides a reading of Mark's theology that is expressly feminist in perspective and draws deeply on her experience in the Catholic Church as a woman religious as well as a student of the New Testament."
The Bible Today, March/April 2003

Synopsis:

The "Gospel of Mark" ends with a curious statement: "Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." Focusing on the fear and silence of the women in the last verse, Joan Mitchell offers an interpretation and encouragement to Christian women. She uses the feminist hermeneutic developed by Elisabeth Sch ssler Fiorenza to deal with the absence or presence of women in the text, but she also employs literary methods to provide an interpretation of the gospel as a whole.

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