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In Courtney Hunt’s 2008 film, Frozen River, the two main characters—a young Mohawk woman and a middle-aged white woman, both in the grip of poverty—slide into an unlikely partnership of smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States from Canada through the Mohawk reservations on both sides of the border. For different reasons, both are desperate, with lives spinning out of control.
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Cf. K. C. Hanson, “The Galilean Fishing Economy and the Jesus Tradition,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 27 (1997): 99–111.
For a summary of this scholarship cf. John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (New York: HarperOne, 1993).
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Kotrosits, M., Taussig, H. (2013). Brightness and Repair in the Face of Poverty. In: Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342645_6
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