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Mark, women and empire : a Korean postcolonial perspective / Seong Hee Kim.

By: Series: Bible in the modern world ; 20.Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, c2010.Description: xii, 179 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1906055645
  • 9781906055646
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 226.082 22
  • 220
LOC classification:
  • BS1901
Contents:
The challenge of reading the Bible : postcolonial, cultural and feminist readings -- Reading the gospel of Mark in a postcolonial generation -- The Markan community and women in the empire -- Rupturing the imperial system : the poor Widow (Mark 12.41-44) -- The coronation of Jesus by the subaltern prophet : the anointing woman (Mark 14.1-11) -- The female disciples between two overlapping empires : the women at the cross and at the burial (Mark 15.40-41, 47) -- Reborn as postcolonial subjects in an alternative world : the women at the tomb (Mark 16.1-8).
Dissertation note: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Drew University, 2006 under title: Mark, women, and empire : ways of life through a Korean and postcolonial perspective.
Holdings
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Book Book Dalton McCaughey Library Level 1 FK60 K49 Available 33865001364295
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Revision of 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 (p. [161]-171) and indexes.

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