Women in Mark's Gospel. By SUSAN MILLER.

Abstract

A dissertation supervised by Joel Marcus, and originally submitted to the University of Glasgow in 2002, Susan Miller's book, published in 2004, is the fourth monograph to appear on this subject in fifteen years. The others are M. Fander's Die Stellung der Frau im Markusevangelium. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung kultur- und religionsgeschichtlicher Hintergründe (Münsteraner Theologische Abhandlungen, 8; Altenberge: Telos, 1989), H. Kinukawa's Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective (Bible and Liberation; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994), and J. L. Mitchell's Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist-Literary Approach to the Gospel of Mark (New York and London: Continuum, 2001). The topic is, therefore, a popular one, as a plethora of recent articles also attests. Miller approaches her subject from a historical-critical point of view, but with a feminist and theological orientation. The style is articulate, the contents scholarly, the argument well presented, and the book will appeal to biblical scholars, postgraduates, and intelligent laypersons with an interest in the Christian Gospels, historical and literary analysis, gender studies, and contemporary feminist interpretation.