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Susan Miller examines the accounts of women in Mark 's gospeland interprets them in relation to Mark 's definition of discipleshipand his understanding of new creation. Mark associates women with service, anointing, and the role of witnesses. Women are thus aligned with Jesus' suffering and death. They are seen to be the last remaining disciples of Jesus and the only witnesses to his death, burial and resurrection. At the end of the gospel, however, the women run away from the tomb, terrified to say anything to anyone. In Mark's apocalyptic world-view the women's fear depicts the eschatological struggle between the old and new age. Mark's gospel ends with the women's silence, but also with the knowledge that the renewal of the discipleship group is dependent upon their witness.
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