Chester Brown´s Bible in Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus

ABSTRACT

One of the latest authors to retell biblical stories in graphic novel form has been Chester Brown, a well-known Canadian underground illustrator who in 2016 released Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, a novel containing adaptations of biblical stories in which the protagonists are fundamentally women. The aim of our work has been to study the interpretative viewpoint of the female-centric stories told by Brown, investigating additions, omissions, and changes to the biblical source text.

KEYWORDS:

• Chester Brown
• Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
• genealogy of Matthew
• biblical reinterpretations
• graphic novel

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Miren Junkal Guevara Llaguno

Miren Junkal Guevara Llaguno, Bilbao (Spain) 1966 is Faculty Professor of Pentateuch and Historical Books at Facultad de Teología de Granada (Spain). Member of the “Transmisión y recepción de la Biblia. Textos e iconografía” Research Group. She has published Splendor in the Diaspora, Ed. Verbo Divino (Estella, Spain) 2006; Apócrifos posmodernos, Ed. Khaf (Madrid, Spain) 2012; Biblia y Pop Media, Mensajero (Bilbao, Spain) 2017. Member of the editorial board of Sal Terrae, Pastoral Theology Review.