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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815823903321

Autore

Betsworth Sharon

Titolo

The reign of God is such as these : a socio-literary analysis of daughters in the Gospel of Mark / / Sharon Betsworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : T & T Clark, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-567-11363-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament Studies ; ; 422

T & T Clark Library of Biblical Studies

Disciplina

226.306

Soggetti

Daughters - Biblical teaching

Women in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Continuum imprint"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; I: Previous Scholarship on Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; II: Background of the Gospel of Mark; III: Determining the Function of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; 2 Social-Historical Status of and Attitudes about Daughters; I: Greco-Roman Family and Religion; II: The Life of Girls in the Greco-Roman World; III: Attitudes toward Daughters in the Greco-Roman Context; IV: Conclusion; 3 Literary Representations of Daughters; I: The Homeric: Hymn to Demeter; II: Jewish Novels; III: The Plays of Menander; IV: Greek Novels

V: Conclusion4 The Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; I: The Placement of the Daughter Cycle in the Narrative Context of Mark's Gospel; II: Mark 5.21-43: An Older Daughter and a Younger Daughter; III: Mark 6.14-29: The Daughter of Herodias; IV: Mark 7. 24-30: The Daughter of the Syro-Phoenician Woman; V: Daughters and the Reign of God; VI: Jesus as the Son of God; VII: Conclusion; 5 Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This is a new analysis of the ''daughters'' in the  Gospel of Mark. Betsworth analyzes the ''daughters'' in the  Gospel of Mark : the woman from the crowd - whom Jesus calls daughter, Jairus'' daughter (5:21-



43), Herodias'' daughter (6:14-29), and the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman (7:24-30). To demonstrate how the Gospel''s first century audience may have heard these stories, Betsworth begins by examining ''daughters'' in their ancient Mediterranean context. Betsworth then considers representations of daughters in select texts from the Septuagint and Greco-Roman literature - from the s