The Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Reference Book of the Year
2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in Scripture
2020 Catholic Press Association third place award for best new religious book series
This reading of Mark’s Gospel engages this ancient text from the perspective of contemporary feminist concerns to expose and resist all forms of domination that prevent the full flourishing of all humans and all creation. Accordingly, it foregrounds the Gospel’s constructions of gender in intersectionality with the visions, structures, practices, and personnel of Roman imperial power. This reading embraces a rich tradition of feminist scholarship on the Gospel, as well as masculinity studies, particularly pervasive hegemonic masculinity. Its politically engaged discussion of Mark’s Gospel provides a resource for clergy, students, and laity concerned with contemporary constructions of gender, power, and a world in which all might experience fullness of life.
Table of Content
Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xv
Foreword:
“Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom” xvii
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary:
“She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25) xxi
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Author’s Introduction: A Feminist/Gender Reading of Mark’s Gospel xli
Mark 1:1-45 Introducing the Most Powerful Man 1
Mark 2:1-28 Men Competing with Men 39
Mark 3:1-35 Hegemonic Masculinity Displayed and Contested 61
Mark 4:1-41 Telling Stories: Asserting Hegemonic Masculinity 83
Mark 5:1-43 Patriarchal Dividends: An Exorcised Man and a Healed Woman and Daughter 109
Mark 6:1-56 Manly Power Asserted and Resisted 143
Mark 7:1-37 Winners and Losers 177
Mark 8:1–9:1 Declining Hegemonic Masculinity? 207
Mark 9:2-50 Mixed Reception 237
Mark 10:1-52 Redeploying Power at Home 263
Mark 11:1-33 Increasing Clashes among Powerful Men 301
Mark 12:1-44 More Confrontations among Powerful Men 325
Mark 13:1-37 The End of Their World and Birthing Another 353
Mark 14:1-72 Ambivalent Masculinity 375
Mark 15:1-47 Hegemonic Masculinity: Is Jesus’ Death a Defeat? 411
Mark 16:1-8 God Outpowers the Ruling Powers: Hegemonic Masculinity Restored 441
Afterword 455
Works Cited 457
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 481
Index of Subjects 497
About the author
Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a Ph D in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015.
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