Woman and nation : : an intercontextual reading of the Gospel of John from a postcolonial feminist perspective / / Jean Kim.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series ; Volume 69
• VerfasserIn: Kim, Jean Kyoung, 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 69.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Kim reads the Gospel of John from a postcolonial feminist perspective as a patriarchal nationalist discourse. The author examines effects of colonialism in twentieth-century Korean cultural experience, as seen in social memory (pervasive, emotional, nonlinear experience of the collective) or oral traditions, to develop an intercontextual lens through which she examines the role of the Johannine female characters in supporting Jesus's role as a national hero and in functioning as continuers of the nation. In her unique handling of the Gospel of John, the author describes how John's resistance to Roman imperial power defines and shapes the boundaries of his Jewish nationalism in relation to the symbolic meanings attached to the female characters' sexuality and gender roles.

Table of Contents

Reading the female body as history/text : women in a (de)colonizing context -- Intercontextual approach from a Minjung's perspective -- The Mother of Jesus at Cana (John 2:1-11) -- The Samaritan woman (John 4:1-42) -- The adulterous woman (John 7:53-8:11) -- Mary and Martha (John 11-12) -- The Mother of Jesus at the cross (John 19:25-27) -- Mary Magdalene at the tomb (John 20:1-18) -- Conclusion: An ethical reading of the Bible.