Women in the Bible

Woman Suffering from Hemorrhages

Matthew 9:20, Mark 5:25, Luke 8:43

• Luke 8:43 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Disabilities in the Bible” by Meghan Henning

• “The Man with the Flow of Power: Porous Bodies in Mark 5:25–34” by Candida R. Moss

• “The Scandalous Gospel According to a Bleeding Woman: A Re-Telling” by Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.

• “The Woman Who Spoke When Jesus Was Silent” by Kathy Khang

• “A Story of Two Leaky Bodies” by Julie Morris

• "Jesus Sees You: Endometriosis, the Bleeding Woman, and Me" by Lauren Gross Blanco

Books

• “Jairus’ Daughter and a Woman with a Hemorrhage: Resuscitation and Bold Faith” (Ch.10) of Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke by Barbara Reid (1996)

• “The Bleeding Woman: Mija Leadership” by Noemi Vega Quiñones in Hermanas: Growing Our Identity and Deepening Our Influence by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson (2019)

• “(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark” (Ch.6) by Mary Rose D’Angelo in Women & Christian Origins edited by Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo (1999)

• “Gospel of Matthew” by Amy-Jill Levine in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• “Woman with a Twelve-Year Hemorrhage” (pp.424-425) by Amy-Jill Levine in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Jesus and the Audacious Woman” in Jesus According to a Woman by Rachel Conrad Wahlberg (1975)