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The Reign of God is Such as These : a Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of New Testament studiesPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780567113634
  • 0567113639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reign of God is Such as These : A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark.DDC classification:
  • 226.306
LOC classification:
  • BS2585.52 .B47 2014
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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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and indexes.

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