Abstract
This essay considers polyvalent meanings of fresh water and the gendered dynamics of menstrual blood and porous, gendered bodies in the history of interpretation of Mark 5:24–35. Drawing upon a hydrosocial, anti-colonial, intersectional feminist hermeneutic, this essay articulates intersections among the uneven contemporary menstrual burdens associated with insufficient fresh water supply, indicates how gendered and racialized medicine and public health figure into these dynamics, and offers a robust alternative to the dominant history of biblical interpretation usually applied to the Mark 5 pericope of the hemorrhaging woman.
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