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Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist Literary Reading of Mark

Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist Literary Reading of Mark

by JoanL.Mitchell (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 152
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 14 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0826413544
ISBN 13: 9780826413543

Media Reviews
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

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
Author Bio
Joan Mitchell, CSJ, is publisher of Good Ground Press and editor of the lectionary-based programs Sunday by Sunday for adults and Spirit for teens as well editor for the past 19 years of the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies for children. She holds a M.A. in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.