Rediscovering the Marys : Maria, Mariamne, Miriam / edited by Mary Ann Beavis and Ally Kateusz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beavis, Mary Ann, editor, writer of introduction.

Kateusz, Ally, editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Scriptural traces ; 22.

Library of New Testament studies ; 620.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 22

Library of New Testament studies ; 620

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Mary.

Mary Magdalene, Saint.

Mary Magdalene.

Mary, of Bethany, Saint.

Miriam (Biblical figure).

Miriam.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, 2020.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights into various unsolved mysteries associated with May Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles, and priests. These traditions also are often interreligious, echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as forard to Maryam in the Qur'an. This book explores questions such as Which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical Gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cuting-edge research under three overarching topics. The first section examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the biblical Marys. Focus then moves on to Mary of Nazareth, and includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. Finally, these essays explore how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys, from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times, supplying a deeper examination of the way our modern imagination of the Marys depend upon scribes, copyists, artists, and storytellers of the past. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Ally Kateusz, Mary Ann Beavis

Section 1. Revisiting which Mary : does which Mary matter? The Magdalene effect : reading and misreading the composite Mary in early Christian works / Mark Goodacre

Which Mary, and why it matters / Mary Ann Beavis

Why Mary? : the Gospel of Mary and its heroine / Judith Hartenstein

What is Mary doing in Acts? : confessional narratives and the synoptic tradition / Jo-Ann Badley

Magdalene, mother, Martha's sister, or none of the above? : the Mary in the Dialogue of the Savior / Anna Cwikla

Two Mary Magdalenes : Eusebius of Caesarea and the questionable reliability of the gospels' female witnesses / Kara J. Lyons-Pardue

Two women leaders : "Mary and the other Mary Magdalene" / Ally Kateusz

Section 2. Rediscovering the Marys in mission and leadership. The power of leadership through mediation, or How Mary exercises overlapping authority / Cornelia Horn

The constriction of female leadership : tracing a trend in the early reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene / Erez DeGolan, Miriam-Simma Walfish

Virgin Mary co-priest or not : the continuing trend of redaction and revision in the medieval era / Judith M. Davis

The memory of Mary's mission according to "Guadalupan sermons" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / J. L. Manzo

Section 3. Recovering receptions of the Marys in literature, art, and archaeology. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth archaeological excavations 1997-2015 / Richard Freund

The dormition of Miriam in rabbinic literature / Michael Rosenberg

The dormition urtext? : oldest dormition wall painting combines the Great angel and Women with censers / Ally Kateusz

Mary in the Qur'an and extracanonical Christian texts / Deborah Niederer Saxon

The origin and manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary / Jin H. Han

From Holy grail to The lost gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene romance / Mary Ann Beavis

Afterword: The future of Mariamic studies / Mary Ann Beavis, Ally Kateusz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-262) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567683458

0567683451

OCLC:

1059331327