Mark, women and empire
Subtitle: a Korean postcolonial perspective
By: Seong Hee Kim
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 20; Bible in the modern world -- 20.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781906055646
Subjects: Feminist criticism; Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Women in the Bible; Feminist theology
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Drew University, 2006 under title: Mark, women, and empire : ways of life through a Korean and postcolonial perspective.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The challenge of reading the Bible : postcolonial, cultural and feminist readings; title: Reading the gospel of Mark in a postcolonial generation; title: The Markan community and women in the empire; title: Rupturing the imperial system : the poor Widow (Mark 12.41-44); title: The coronation of Jesus by the subaltern prophet : the anointing woman (Mark 14.1-11); title: The female disciples between two overlapping empires : the women at the cross and at the burial (Mark 15.40-41, 47); title: Reborn as postcolonial subjects in an alternative world : the women at the tomb (Mark 16.1-8).