The Reign of God Is Such as These A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Introduction ........1 Previous Scholarship on Daughters in the Gospel of Mark ........2 Background of the Gospel of Mark .............2 Determining the Function of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark ..............18 2. Social - Historical Status of and Attitudes about Daughters ...............26 Greco-Roman Family and Religion ............28 Attitudes towards Daughters in the Greco-Roman Context ........56 3. Literary Representations of Daughters ...........60 The homeric Hymn to Demeter ......62 Jewish novels .........68 The Plays of Menander .....75 Greek Novels .......81 4. The Daughters in the Gospel of Mark ..........96 The placement of the Daughter Cycle in the Narrative context of Mark`s Gospel ...........98 Mark 5. 21- 43: An Older Daughter and a Younger Daughter ........101 Mark 6. 14-29: The Daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman ..............127 Daughters and the Reign of God .............135 Jesus as the son of God .........137