
Episode 69: Daniel Kirk - Five Things You Need to Know About the Gospel of Mark
The Bible For Normal People
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The Twelve Dude Bros Are More Important Than These Women
The woman who anoints jesus and thereby prepares his body for burial is embodied in this one act. She was able to in this action hold together jesus as messiah andjesus as someone who is about to be buried. The whole reorientation of what messiah means that marx is trying to get across is embodied in her good deed. i hope this makes you want to go read this gospel again because it's doing that to me but anyway that's pretty cool so this marginalized and the nameless woman uh any more that's that's my that's my last that's yourLast.
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