The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha and the Christian testament / Jane Schaberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaberg, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary Magdalene, Saint.

Mary Magdalene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 p

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Virginia Woolf and Mary Magdalene: Thinking Back through the Magdalene; CHAPTER TWO: Meditations at Migdal; CHAPTER THREE: Silence, Conflation, Distortion, Legends; CHAPTER FOUR: The Woman Who Understood (Too) Completely: The Gnostic/Apocryphal Mary Magdalene; CHAPTER FIVE: The Christian Testament''s Mary Magdalene: Scholarly Versions, Explorations, Erasures; CHAPTER SIX: Christian Testament Converging Possibilities; CHAPTER SEVEN: Mary Magdalene as Successor to Jesus; APPENDIX A: Works That Mention Mary Magdalene, Not Found at Nag Hammadi

APPENDIX B: 1 Enoch 70-71APPENDIX C: The Human One; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781441141750

1441141758