Warren Carter is the LaDonna Kramer Meinders Professor of New Testament at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the author of eighteen books and is a regular presenter at scholarly conferences and in church contexts.

Contents

List of Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xv
Foreword: "Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom" xvii
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: "She Is a Breath of the Power of God" (Wis 7:25) xxi
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Author's Introduction: A Feminist/Gender Reading of Mark's Gospel xli

Mark 1:1-45 Introducing the Most Powerful Man 1
Mark 2:1-28 Men Competing with Men 39
Mark 3:1-35 Hegemonic Masculinity Displayed and Contested 61
Mark 4:1-41 Telling Stories: Asserting Hegemonic Masculinity 83
Mark 5:1-43 Patriarchal Dividends: An Exorcised Man and a Healed Woman and Daughter 109
Mark 6:1-56 Manly Power Asserted and Resisted 143
Mark 7:1-37 Winners and Losers 177
Mark 8:1-9:1 Declining Hegemonic Masculinity? 207
Mark 9:2-50 Mixed Reception 237
Mark 10:1-52 Redeploying Power at Home 263
Mark 11:1-33 Increasing Clashes among Powerful Men 301
Mark 12:1-44 More Confrontations among Powerful Men 325
Mark 13:1-37 The End of Their World and Birthing Another 353
Mark 14:1-72 Ambivalent Masculinity 375
Mark 15:1-47 Hegemonic Masculinity: Is Jesus' Death a Defeat? 411
Mark 16:1-8 God Outpowers the Ruling Powers: Hegemonic Masculinity Restored 441

Afterword 455
Works Cited 457
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 481
Index of Subjects 497