Mark
7:24-37
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- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- Beggar At A Banquet (Babylonian Talmud, Berakoth 31b). At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
- Comparative texts about Spirit Possession and Exorcism from Philo, Lucian, Josephus, the Babylonian Talmud, Midrash, Philostratus, etc. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
- XX.46-48, 56, 58; XXI.1-7; Tatian's Diatessaron (c. 150-160).
- Chapter VI, On Prayer, Tertullian (c. 199)
- From the Catena Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.'
- "Of Faith & Love," Martin Luther, c. 1522.
- Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, Mark 7:31-37, Martin Luther, c. 1525.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- ""Dog" here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully"
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
- "Thus, while proud Pharisees are left by the blessed Saviour, he manifests his compassion to poor humbled sinners, who look to him for children's bread. He still goes about to seek and save the lost."
- From
Wesley's Notes.
- "He put his fingers into his ears - Perhaps intending to teach us, that we are not to prescribe to him (as they who brought this man attempted to do) but to expect his blessing by whatsoever means he pleases: even though there should be no proportion or resemblance between the means used, and the benefit to be conveyed thereby."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled--"Is there hope for me here? . . . Filled FIRST?" "Then my turn, it seems, is coming! "--but then, "The CHILDREN first? . . . Ah! when, on that rule, shall my turn ever come!" But ere she has time for these ponderings of His word, another word comes to supplement it."
- From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Jesus Heals a Syrophonecian Woman's Daughter, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2012.
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Commentary,
Mark 7:24-37, Alyce M. McKenzie, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org,
2009.
- "...there is your story and mine−that Jesus is in our house, with full power to heal; that we need to approach him with compassion and perseverance, praising God the sender of the Savior of all people, not just people like us."
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Commentary, Mark 7:24-30, Brian K. Blount,
The African American Lectionary,
2010.
- "Why is this such an important story in Mark?s Gospel? Mark wants us to holler for transformation the way that woman hollered for the transformation of her daughter?s life situation, even when all the signals say, you ought to shut up, give up and go home."
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
- A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 6:7 - 8:26, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers for commentary.)
- "Jesus Heals the Daughter of the Syro-Phoenician Woman," "A Man with Stammering and Deafness Healed," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, "a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark."
-
"First
Thoughts on Year B Gospel Passages in the Lectionary,"
Pentecost 14, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
- "Many times it has been disciples who have least understood the issues as they have uncoupled devotion to God from devotion to people, because they have uncoupled God and people. Then a prejudiced ?god? feeds a prejudiced people."
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Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
Mark 7:24-37, David Ewart, 2009.
- "The racial and religious differences between Jesus and the Gentile woman are unchanged. But what has changed is that courage and caring for a daughter have been shown to be acceptable to God - even when they come from a Gentile heart; even when they come from a woman's heart; even when they come from the heart of a woman who has publically shamed herself by being out alone, by speaking to a man, and by daring to speak back to a man."
- Exegetical
Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks
Christian Resources.
- "Lamar Williamson, Jr. (Mark, Interpretation) connects these texts with verses 1-23 with, "If in the preceding passage Jesus "declared all foods clean" (7:19), in these stories he declares all persons clean, whether a Gentile woman in a pagan city or a man of indeterminate race in the unclean territory of the Decapolis. The stories are two examples of the sample principle: Both advance Jesus' repudiation of traditional taboos (p. 137).""
- "Jesus Does Everything Well," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
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"A
Great, Non-Hostile, Merciful, Takeover," Cathy Lessman,
Sabbatheology, The Crossings Community, 2009.
- "We too, with our paucity of credentials, appeal to Jesus for mercy, already trusting (because we've heard of and believe 'the spectacular rescue-mission') that we will receive it too."
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"God's Choice," Stephen Fowl, The Christian Century,
2006.
- "The juxtaposition of this text from James with Mark?s story of the healing of the Syro-Phoenician woman reveals a wicked sense of humor on someone?s part."
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"The Crumbs under the Table: Bread Enough for All," Karen A. Keely,
"Proclaiming Gospel Justice: Reflections on the Scriptures and Progressive
Spirituality," The Witness,
2006.
- "Jesus ... essentially says, 'Good point. You get the same food as all of God's other children anyway, so why not have a seat at the table?'"
- "Yelping Puppies: The Canaanite Woman," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
- Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
-
"'Even
the Dogs...'"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach.
"Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
- "In Tyre, this week, a woman still cries out for her daughter. She was not part of the hatred and politics that turned southern Lebanon into a disaster zone. Yet, that woman still cannot find a voice in an area torn asunder by religion and politics. In a government (the U.S.) that has framed itself as conservative Christian, the irony is that no one has asked; 'What did Jesus do when he was in Tyre?'"
- Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 23B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
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"Shortcomings
and Faith," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's
Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
- "What kinds of shortcomings do people have? How do those shortcoming challenge people to grow?"
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"The Deeper Deafness," Ordinary 23B, Fr. Gerry Pierse, C.Ss.R., from Sundays Into
Silence: Reflections on the Sunday Gospels in the Light of Christian
Meditation. Claretian Publications.
- "The man did not get Jesus' point, as most people today do not get his point. They look for sensational phenomena, like the curing of the physically deaf, and fail to appreciate or recognize relational and spiritual deafness."
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"Deafness: Physical and Spiritual," Lawton Posey, The Christian
Century, 1980. At Religion Online.
- "Because I am a religious person, and because without this hearing aid I am almost deaf, the stories of Jesus healing deaf people are particularly meaningful and poignant to me."
- Articles & Background:
- "Mark 7: The Syrophoenician Woman and the Deaf Mute Man," wikipedia.
- "A Symbolic
Approach to Mark 7." Jerome H. Neyrey, Forum 4,3 (1988):63-91.
- "Since the purpose of God's law was not to separate covenant from non-covenant members but to gather all peoples in God's mysterious election, the particularistic kosher laws are judged abrogated. And so the issue of clean/unclean in Mark 7 may be focused on the question of washing hands and vessels, but these are but symbols of the larger discussion of purity and pollution."
-
"Magic, Miracles, and The Gospel," L. Michael White. PBS From
Jesus to Christ.
- "Probably in some ways, and more than any other issue within the development of early Christianity and the gospels tradition, miracles present one of the problematic areas."
- "Miracles,
In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings," Jerome H. Neyrey,
University of Notre Dame, 1995.
- "...we should attend to the institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom. The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant. 8.45-48)."
- "Meals, Food and
Tablefellowship." Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament
Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
- "How can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what anthropologists call "the language of meals"?"
- "Women Transformed: The Ending of
Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom," by Marie Sabin in CrossCurrents, Summer 1998.
- "Mark images God's Kingdom as a state of new consciousness. Here, women are followers and reflectors of Wisdom/Jesus, prophets entrusted with preaching the word of ongoing resurrection."
- "This triumph is portrayed as coming about through a Gentile woman's bold and persuasive insistence that God's mercy is not doled out along ethnic, gender, or socio-cultural lines."
- "The
Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World,"
Howard Clark Kee, University of Pennsylvania. Theology Today,
1992.
- "If the church in our time were to take with full seriousness the radical openness toward women and their participation in the life of God's people that characterized the movement at the outset, it could result in a significant contribution toward renewal of both the church and the human race."
-
"Blurring
the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee,"
Virginia Burrus, The Theological School at Drew University. Theology
Today, 1992.
- "...a blurring of religious or cultural boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the smugness that frequently creeps into Christian discussions of Judaism and other religious traditions. The roots of a distinctive Christian feminism would appear to be entangled in Jewish and pagan traditions, rather than emerging in pure and radical opposition to those traditions. Second, a blurring of chronological boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the tendency to locate orthodox or authentic Christianity almost purely in a statically defined "golden age" of the distant past. After all, how liberating is it for Christian women to be invited to focus exclusively on "the insights of Jesus and Paul"?"
- "The
Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:25-30/Matthew 15:21-28," James Still, at Internet
Infidels.
- "We do know that first-century Jews (the 'children' in this passage) referred to the pagans as dogs because of their failure to observe ritual purity laws (Downing, 1992: 137)."
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- Bishop, Jonathan,
"Parabole and Parrhesia in Mark," Interpretation, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Broesterhuizen,
Marcel, "Faith in Deaf Culture,"
Theological Studies, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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Novum Testamentum, 1967.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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"Blurring
the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee,"
Theology
Today, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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"Women and Conflict,"
The Living Pulpit, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Dahlen, Robert W., "The Savior and
the Dog: An Exercise in Hearing," Word & World, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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Capernaum," Novum Testamentum, 1973.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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"Women in the Gospel of Mark,"
Word & World, 2006. (Section on
this text begins on page 24.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Fowl, Stephen, "God's Choice," The
Christian Century, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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"The Healing of a Deaf Man with an Impediment of Speech,"
Journal for
Preachers, 2007. (Sermon)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Gnanadason, Aruna, "Jesus and the
Asian Woman: A Post-Colonial Look at the Syro-Phoenician Woman/Canaanite
from an Indian Perspective," Studies in World Christianity, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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Judith, "Spirit, Mercy, and the Other,"
Theology Today, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Husted, Heidi,
"When the Gospel Goes to the Dogs,"
The Christian Century, 2000.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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"The
Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World," Theology Today,
1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Loader, William,
"Challenged at the Boundaries: A Conservative Jesus in Mark's Tradition,"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Neumark, Heidi, "Kitchen Drama," Currents in
Theology and Mission, 2009.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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The Christian Century, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
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Syro-Phoenician Woman Makes to Jesus," Semeia, 1996.
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Petersen, Norman R., "The Composition of Mark 4:1-8:26,"
Harvard Theological Review, 1980.
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"Deafness: Physical and Spiritual,"
The Christian Century, 1980.
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Journeys of Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse," Journal of Pastoral
Theology, 1993.
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Journal of the American
Academy of Religion, 1994.
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"Women Transformed: The Ending of
Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom," Cross
Currents, Summer 1998.
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"A Gauntlet with a Gift in It: From Text to Sermon on Matthew 15:21-28 and
Mark 7:24-30," Interpretation, 1966.
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"'She Departed to Her House': Another Dimension of the Syrophoenician
Mother's Faith in Mark 7:24-30," Word & World, 2006.
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"The Rationale of the Laws of Clean and Unclean in the Old Testament,"
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D.,
"'Neither Jew nor Greek': Ethnic Conflict in Graceo-Roman Society,"
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- Bishop, Jonathan,
"Parabole and Parrhesia in Mark," Interpretation, 1986.
- Reviews:
- Sermons:
- "It's Time We Open Up," The Rev. Peter Marty, Day 1, 2006.
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"Love behind the Secret Door,"
- "Yelping Puppies: The Canaanite Woman," Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
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"The
Bread of Life (and the Bread Crumbs)," Sheila C. Gustafson, 2003.
Covenant Network of
Presbyterians.
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- "The Look on His Face," the Rev. Dirk Ficca, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2000.
- "What about Healing?" John Jewell, 2000.
- "Persistence," the Rev. Dr. Elton Richards, Day 1, 1997.
- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily:
- With Children:
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- "Bobbie's Hope," children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com.
- "A Greek Woman Asks Jesus' Help for her Daughter," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
- "Mark 7 & 8 Word Search," Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
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- Drama:
- "Foreign Dogs," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
- "Gentile Woman" monologue, Ross Olson.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art Images: Mark 7:31-37, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
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- Mark 7:31-37 at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- Images for this week's readings, Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
- Mark 7:24-30, Mark 7:31-37, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
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- Hymns and Music:
- “She Came to Jesus” an original hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, 2002, celebrates the faith of a woman with a sick child in Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30. Tune: SLANE (“Be Thou My Vision”). This hymn is in Songs of Grace: New Hymns for God and Neighbor and Singing the New Testament.
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Clean/Unclean
- Healing - See especially Awakenings
- Seeing/Seeing Again
- "Possession" by Evil
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Mark
