Abstract:
This research is an attempt to detect the true meaning and intention of Luke in the
text that talks about Mary and Martha (Luke 10.38-42) and their connection with
Jesus. I seek to analyze the situation of women in patriarchal society, their
performance as they take care of the family and home and, at the same time, the
audacity of the women who followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem: how they
served him, how they listened to him, how they risked their lives for him and assisted
him up to the moment of his resurrection, spreading the news about the risen Lord. It
is possible to perceive that, at all times, women have struggled for a decent life and
gradually conquered their space and noticed that the human being, as a whole,
needs reconciliation, female/male, recognizing the feminine values which were
forgotten in androcentric societies. In various different contexts, many women began
to participate actively in diverse movements, trade unions, grassroots communities,
exercising a strong leadership, organizing biblical reflections and discovering that
another world is possible.
