Ethology to the ancients was the study of character; to the moderns
it is the study of human beings through the behavioural patterns of
animals. These studies in fact have a common genealogy with
classical writers convinced that the dimorphism of gender was
naturally ordered with all its consequent inequalities in strength,
virtue and above all in the location of reason. In the encounter
between Jesus and the Syrophoenician women in the Gospel of Mark
this ethology dominates the story. Women are described as dogs.
This highly original work utilises the common emphases of ancient
and modern ethology to unlock new dimensions of the story. It
demonstrates that in the Syrophoenician critique of Jesus,
delivered by a woman and her daughter, exalted reason must yield
its monopoly to the equally privileged life of the body. The author
is a New Testament Biblical Scholar at Australian Cathollic
Univeristy in Canberra, Australia. The book won the Lynlea Rodger
Australasian Theological Book Prize in 2009 for the best
Theological Book written in 2008/2009.
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