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The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha, and the Christian testament / Jane Schaberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaberg, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary Magdalene, Saint.
- Mary Magdalene.
- Physical Description:
- 379 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, [2002]
- Summary:
- The controversy surrounding Dan Brown' s novel The Da Vinci Code has intensified interest in Mary Magdalene and Jane Schaberg provides an authoritative source for a deeper understanding and re-assessment of this popular figure. Within a progressive feminist framework, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene approaches Christian Testament sources through analysis of legend, archaeology, and gnostic/apocryphal traditions. This is the story of the suppression and distortion of a powerful woman leader - Schaberg presents Mary Magdalene as successor to Jesus in a challenging alternative to the Petrine primacy. A work of controversial and creative scholarship.
- Contents:
- Virginia Woolf and Mary Magdalene: thinking back through the Magdalene
- Meditations at Migdal
- Silence, conflation, distortion, legends
- The woman who understood (too) completely: the gnostic/apocryphal Magdalene
- The Christian testament's Mary Magdalene: scholarly versions, explorations, erasures
- Converging possibilities
- Mary Magdalene as successor to Jesus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826413838
- OCLC:
- 48989326
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