Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Literary Approaches
	Full Disclosure: Towards a Complete Characterization of the Women Who Followed Jesus in the Gospel according to Mark	13
	The Canaanite Woman and Jesus: Surprising Models of Discipleship (Matt. 15:21-28)	33
	Gentile Female Characters in Matthew's Story: An Illustration of Righteousness	54
	Synoptic Women in John. Interfigural Readings	77
Pt. 2	Historical Re-Construction and Contextualization
	In the Footsteps of Jesus: Jewish Women in a Jewish Movement	115
	Gender, Ethnicity, and Legal Considerations in the Haemorrhaging Woman's Story Mark 5:25-34	137
	Jesus the Wine-drinker: A Friend of Women	162
	Magdalenes and Tiberiennes: City Women in the Entourage of Jesus	181
	Mary Magdalene and the Seven Demons in Social-scientific Perspective	203
	"Your Faith Has Made You Well." Jesus, Women, and Healing in the Gospel of Matthew	224
	Portrayals of Women in 1 and 2 Maccabees	245
Pt. 3	Actualizations
	Border-crossing and Its Redemptive Power in John 7:53-8:11: A Cultural Reading of Jesus and the Accused	267
	The Miracle Story of the Bent-over Woman in Luke 13:10-17: An Interaction-centred Interpretation	292
	Divining Texts for International Relations: Matt. 15:21-28	315
	Lilies of the Field and Wandering Jews: Biblical Scholarship, Women's Roles, and Social Location	329
	Jesus and Women in Fiction and Film	353
	Index of Names	393
	Index of Subjects	402
	Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources	408