Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark [Hardcover]

Jin Young Choi rereads discipleship in the Gospel of Mark from a postcolonial feminist perspective, developing an Asian and Asian American hermeneutics of phronesis. Colonized subjects perceive Jesus' body as phantasmic. Discipleship means embodying the mystery of this body while engaging with invisible, placeless and voiceless others.Introduction
PART I: APPROACHING MARK
1. Rereading Discipleship
2. Knowledge, Body, and Subjectivity in Theoretical Frameworks
3. Asian and Asian American Feminist Hermeneutics of Phronesis
PART II: A PHRONETIC READING OF MARK
4. Empire and Body: Bodies, Territories, and Language
5. The Phantasmic Body (Mark 6:45-52)
6. The Consumed Body (Mark 7:24-30)
7. The Passive Body (Mark 7:31-37)
Conclusion

Hardly any issue is more central to the gospels than the understanding of the structure and vision of discipleship. Jin Young expertly approaches this central topic with a sophisticated theoretical framework of postcolonial feminist biblical criticism and a hermeneutical lens of wisdom (phronesis). This sophisticated and highly readable interpretation of discipleship in the Gospel of Mark is a must read for anyone interested in Markan scholarship and/or postcolonial feminist interpretation. I highly recommend it. - Elisabeth Sch?ssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, Harvard University, USA

This study of the Gospel of Mark represents an incisive conjunction of early Christian studies with postcolonial and feminist studies. It advances a postcolonial feminist approach from the particular perspective of the Asian and Asian American context, thereby raising the problematic of ethnic-racial studies as well. The result is a different reading of the dynamics and mechanics involving the characters of Jesus and followers one in which the presence of absence and the voice of silenl³7