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Mary Ann Beavis (born July 26, 1955) is a professor emerita, St. Thomas More College, the University of Saskatchewan. She co-founded the peer-reviewed academic journal, ''S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies'',The first two issues were published in 2022
S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies
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together with Helen Hye-Sook Hwang in 2021.


Books

*''The First Christian Slave: Onesimus in Context.'' Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2021. *''What Does the Bible Say? A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World.'' Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017. Co-authored with HyeRan Kim-Cragg. *''1-2 Thessalonians. Wisdom Commentaries. Co-authored with Florence Gillman and HyeRan Kim-Cragg.'' Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016. *''The Epistle to the Hebrews: Wisdom Commentaries.'' Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2015. Co-authored with HyeRan Kim-Cragg. *''Christian Goddess Spirituality: Enchanting Christianity.'' New York: Routledge, 2015. *''The Gospel of Mark. Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament.'' Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011. *''Jesus and Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman Empire.'' Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006. *''Mark’s Audience: Literary and Social Aspects of Mark 4:11-12.'' JSNTSS 33; Sheffield: Academic, 1989.


Edited works

*Co-editor with Ally Kateusz. ''Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam.'' London: T. & T. Clark, 2020. *Co-editor with Helen Hye-Sook Hwang. ''Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture.'' Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2018. . *Co-editor with Helen Hye-Sook Hwang. ''Celebrating Seasons of the Goddesses.'' Mago Books, 2017. . *Co-editor with Michael Gilmour. ''Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture.'' Sheffield: Phoenix Press, 2012. *Editor. ''Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent: Canadian Contextual Feminist Theology.'' Ottawa: Novalis, 2008. *Coeditor with Moira Day. ''Theatre Research in Canada 27,3 (2006).'' Special Issue on Religion and Theatre in Canada. *Editor. ''The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom.'' The Biblical Seminar 86; Sheffield: Academic/Continuum, 2002.


Referred articles

*“Goddesses in Every Girl? Goddess Feminism and Children’s Literature.” S/he: An International Journal of Goddess Studies 1,1 (2022) 115-38. *“Six Years a Slave: The Confessio of St. Patrick as Slave Narrative.” Irish Theological Quarterly 2020, 85,4 (2020) 339–51. *“Slaves Obey Your Masters according to the Flesh (Col 3:22a; Eph 6:5a) in Servile Perspective.” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture 56 (2021) 251-61. *“The Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30): Imagining A Slave’s Perspective.” Journal of the Gospels and Acts Research 2 (October 2018) 7-21. *“The Parable of the Slave, Son and Vineyard: A Freedman’s Narrative. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 80,3 (October 2018) 655-69. *“From Holy Grail to Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and Mary Magdalene Scholarship.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 27,3 (2015) 236-49. *“Christian Goddess Spirituality and Thealogy.” Feminist Theology 24,2 (2016) 125-38. *“Mary of Bethany and a Hermeneutic of Remembrance.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 22 (2013) 739-55. *“The Deification of Mary Magdalene.” Feminist Theology 21,2 (2012) 145-54. *“The Cathar Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine: Pop Culture Legend vs. Medieval Doctrine.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 24:3 (2012) 419-31. *“Reconsidering Mary of Bethany.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74,2 (2012) 281-97. *“Five Filmic Utopias at the Turn of the Millennium.” Journal of Contemporary Thought: Special Issue on Utopias Today! (July 2010). *“The Resurrection of Jephthah’s Daughter: Judges 11:34-40 and Mark 5:21-24, 35-43.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010) 46-62. *“Christian Origins, Egalitarianism and Utopianism.” Journal for the Feminist Study of Religion 23.2 (2007) 27-50. *“Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament.” Journal of Religion and Film 8,2 (October 2004) http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol8No2/crazy.htm. *“Philo’s Therapeutai: Philosopher’s Dream or Utopian Construct?” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. 14,1 (2004) 30-42. *“A Daughter in Israel: Celebrating Bat Jephtha (Judges 11:39d-40).” Feminist Theology 13 (2004) 11-25. *“The Kingdom of God, ‘Utopia’ and Theocracy.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2.1 (2004) 91-106. *“‘Angels Carrying Savage Weapons’: Uses of the Bible in Horror Films.” Journal of Religion and Film 7.2 (2003) https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol7/iss2/2/. *“‘I like the bird’: Avian Metaphors and Feminist Theology.” Feminist Theology 12 (2003) 118-27. *“‘Prey for Us’: Biblical/Theological Themes in a ‘Cult’ TV Sci-Fi Drama.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 1 (2002). http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/articles.html *“The Power of Jesus’ Parables: Were They Polemical or Irenic?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 82 (2001): 3-30. *“‘Pluck the rose but shun the thorns’: The Ancient School and Christian Origins.” Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 29,4 (2000): 411-23. *“The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited.” Journal of Religion and Film 4,3 (2000). http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/sweether.htm *“Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play.” Journal of Religion and Film 4,2 (2000). http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/vol4no2.htm *“From the Margin to the Way: A Feminist Reading of the Story of Bartimaeus.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 14, 1 (1998) 19-39. *“‘Expecting Nothing in Return’: Luke’s Picture of the Marginalized.” Interpretation 48 (1994) 357-68. *“Ancient Slavery as an Interpretive Context for the Servant Parables, with Special Reference to the Unjust Steward.” Journal of Biblical Literature 111 (1992) 37-54. *“Parable and Fable.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52 (1990) 473-98. *“Women as Models of Faith in Mark.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 18 (1988) 3-9. *“Anti-Egyptian Polemic in the Letter of Aristeas 130-165 (The High Priest’s Discourse).” Journal for the Study of Judaism 28 (1988) 145-51. *“The Trial before the Sanhedrin (Mark 14:53-65, Reader Response, and Greco-Roman Readers).” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 49 (1987) 581-96. *“Mark’s Teaching on Faith.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 16 (1986) 139-42.


Other articles

*Coauthored with Chris Klassen and Scott Dunbar. “The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture: More than Old Wine in New Bottles.” Religion 43,3 (2013) 421-33. *“Who is Mary Magdalene?” Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics. Women in the Bible (ed. Robert B. Kruschwitz; Waco: Baylor University Press, 2013) 23-29. *“Listening to Mark: A Response to McVann, Cardwell, Chapman, Sánchez—And a Suggestion.” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture 47,3 (2012) 264-75. *“‘Like Rachel and Leah:’ The Mothers of Genesis,” The Bible Today 50,3 (May/June 2012) 151-58. *“‘Like yeast a woman took’: Feminist Interpretations of the Parables,” Review and Expositor 109,2 (Spring 2012) 219-31. *“I Commend to You Our Sister: Women in Romans 16.” The Bible Today 45 (July 2008). 227-32. Invited by editor. *“The Dangerous Gospel: Women in the Gospel of Luke.” The Bible Today 44 (January/February 2007) 28-32. Invited by editor. *“The Theme of Child Sacrifice in the Work of Canadian Women Authors,” SBL Forum 4,1 (January 2006). http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=476 . *“‘She had heard about Jesus’: Women Listening to the Gospel of Mark.” The Bible Today 43 (January/February 2006) 25-29. Invited by editor. *“The New Covenant and Judaism.” The Bible Today 22 (1984) 24-30.


Book chapters

*“Which Mary, and Why It Matters.” Rediscovering the Marys, 25-38. *“From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance.” Rediscovering the Marys, 227-34. *“From Skepticism to Piety: The Bible in Horror Films.” The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film (ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), 223-36. *“Freedom and Slavery.” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible (ed. Samuel E. Balentine; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Oxford Reference, 6 pp. *“‘You Give them Something to Eat’ (Mark 6:37): Beyond a Hermeneutic of Hunger.” In Sheila E. McGinn, Lai Ling Ngan and Ahida Pilarski, eds. By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014), 95-112. *“2 Thessalonians.” Women’s Bible Commentary, Newly Revised and Updated (ed. Carol A. Newsom Sharon H. Ringe and Jacqueline E. Lapsley; Louisville, LY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012) 592-94. *“Jesus of Montreal.” The Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films (ed. Adele Reinhartz; London/New York: Routledge, 2012) 145-49. *“Jesus in Utopian Context.” Tom Holmén (ed.), Jesus in Continuum (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament Reihe A; Tübingen: Mohr, 2011) 133-52. *“Pseudapocrypha: Invented Scripture in Apocalyptic Horror Films.” In John Walliss and Lee Quinby, eds. Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film, 75-90. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2010. *“Jesus of Canada? Four Canadian Constructions of the Christ Figure.” In Ellen Leonard and Kate Merriman, eds. From Logos to Chrisos: Essays on Christology in Honour of Joanne McWilliam, 19-37. Editions SR 34; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. *“Feminist (and other) Reflections on the Woman with Seven Husbands (Mark 12:20-23.” In Ruben Zimmermann, ed. Hermeneutik der Gleichnisse Jesus: Methodische Neuansätze zum Verstehen urchristlicher Parabeltexte, 603-17.Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 213; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. *“Introduction.” Mary Ann Beavis, ed. Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent: Canadian Contextual Feminist Theology, 1-22. Ottawa: Novalis, Spring 2008. *“The Influence of Feminist Theology of Canadian Women Artists.” In Mary Ann Beavis, ed. Feminist Theology with A Canadian Accent: Canadian Contextual Feminist Theology, 291-308. Ottawa: Novalis, 2008. *“The Aqedah, Jephtha’s Daughter, and the Theme of Child Sacrifice in the Work of Canadian Women Authors.” In Mary Ann Beavis, ed. Feminist Theology with A Canadian Accent: Canadian Contextual Feminist Theology, 353-70. Ottawa: Novalis, Spring 2008. *“Christianity without Christ: Historical Jesus Scholarship and Feminist Theology/Thealogy.” In Amy-Jill Levine, ed., Feminist Companion to the New Testament: The Historical Jesus (London/New York: Continuum, forthcoming). Invited by editor. *“Introduction: Seeking the ‘Lost Coin’ of Parables about Women.” In Mary Ann Beavis, ed., The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom.” London/New York: Sheffield/Continuum, 2002, 17-33. *“Joy in Heaven, Sorrow on Earth: Luke 15.10.” In Mary Ann Beavis, ed., The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom.” London/New York: Sheffield/Continuum, 2002, 39-45. *“‘Making Up Stories: A Feminist Reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15.11b-32).” In Mary Ann Beavis, ed., The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom.” London/New York: Sheffield/Continuum, 2002, 98-123. *“Jezebel Speaks: Naming the Goddess in the Book of Revelation.” In Amy-Jill Levine, ed., Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix. *“‘If any one will not work, let them not eat’: 2 Thessalonians 3.10 and the Social Support of Women.” In Amy-Jill Levine, ed., A Feminist Companion to the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, 29-36. London/New York: T. & T. Clark, 2003. *“‘Expecting Nothing in Return’: Luke’s Picture of the Marginalized.” In Jack Dean Kingsbury, ed., Gospel Interpretation: Narrative-Critical and Social-Scientific Approaches, 142-54. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997. Reprint of Interpretation article (see above). *“The Parable of the Foolish Landowner.” In G. Shillington, ed., Jesus and His Parables (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997), 55-68. *“2 Thessalonians.” In Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed., Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Commentary (New York: Crossroad, 1994) 601-10.


See also

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Pheme Perkins Pheme Perkins (born 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she has been teaching since 1972. She is a nationally recognized expert on the Greco-Roman cultural setting of early Christianity, as well as the P ...
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Parable of the Lost Coin The Parable of the Lost Coin is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in . In it, a woman searches for a lost coin, finds it, and rejoices. It is a member of a trilogy on Redemption (theology), redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees ...
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Journal of Religion and Popular Culture The ''Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' is a triannual online peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2002 and is published by University of Toronto Press. The editors-in-chief are Jennifer E. Porter, Associate professor at M ...


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Mary Ann Beavis at St. Thomas More College
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