Women in the Bible

Syrophoenician Woman

*See also: Canaanite Woman

Mark 7:25

• Mark 7:25…but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• "Moral Agency at the Borders: Rereading the Story of the Syrophoenician Woman" by Jane E. Hicks

• "Jesus and the Uppity Woman" from The Grinnell Magazine

• "Sandra Bland: Race, Gender, and the Politics of 'Sass'" by Mitzi J. Smith

• "Women Count" by Jeff Miller

• "A Gentile Woman's Story" by Sharon Ringe in Feminist Theology: A Reader edited by Ann Loades (1990)

• “The Woman Who Changed Jesus” by Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.

• “When a Woman is a Dog: Ancient and Modern Ethology Meet the Syrophoenician Woman” by Alan H. Cadwallader

• “The Syrophoenician Woman” by Claudia Setzer

• “Drag Queens and Did Jesus Just Call that Woman a B—-?” by Wilda C. Gafney

Books

• “The Canaanite Woman: Breakthrough at the Margins” by Natalia Kohn in Hermanas: Growing Our Identity and Deepening Our Influence by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson (2019)

• "Race, Gender, and the Politics of 'Sass': Reading Mark 7:24-30 through a Womanist Lens of Intersectionality and Inter(con)textuality" by Mitzi J. Smith in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace (2016)

• “Syrophoenician Woman” (pp.426-427) by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Gospel of Mark” (pp.478-492) by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• “(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark” (Ch.6) by Mary Rose D’Angelo in Women & Christian Origins edited by Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo (1999)

• “Fallible Followers: Women and Men in the Gospel of Mark” in In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (2000)