JESUS E AS MULHERES NO EVANGELHO DE MARCOS: PARADIGMAS DE RELAÇÕES DE GÊNERO.

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate that, through the Gospel of Mark, a standard set of egalitarian gender relations is developed in the scenes involving Jesus and women, taking the women out of a context of disease, oppression and exclusion and giving them positive characterization. This model of gender relations can be a paradigm for gender relations today and help in fighting violence against women, which is many times legitimated by religious texts and traditions. To do so, it starts with a comprehension of the context, structure and function of the Gospel of Mark. Them, using the gender category and a feminist hermeneutics of liberation, it does a the narratological analysis of the following pericopes: Mark 1:29-31, 3:31-35; 5.21-43, 7.24-30; 12.41-44, 14.3-9, 15.40-16.8. These passages are the ones that have women and Jesus as a historical-narrative subject and contain a criticism of the patriarchal ethos. Finally, understanding the violence against women as a consequence of gender domination, it uses the results of the analysis to propose new ways of being male and female in their multiple relations. Thus, this work intend, through a reinterpretation of biblical texts, to provide material that can help in reconstructing respectful and fair gender relations and in preventing practices of discrimination and violence.