ABSTRACT
This chapter is an attempt to re-read Mark 7:24-30 in the light of issues of gender, race and hybridity. These issues are crucial in Mark as a number of Markan passages besides 7:24-30 address these issues. In the first part of the chapter these issues will be defined. The place of women, racial scars and questions of hybridity in Mark will be evaluated. The question of how Mark treated issues of gender in his milieu will be discussed here. A discussion of the major insights which have emerged from both the traditional interpretations and Indian interpretations will be presented. Finally, Mark 7:24-30 will be interpreted from a postcolonial perspective. All these discussions will be framed by a postcolonial reading of 7:24-30 dealing with the issues of race, gender and hybridity/pluralism.
