The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha, and the Christian testament / Jane Schaberg.
Publication details: New York : Continuum, c2002.Description: 379 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0826416454
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BSOP Library | GC | BS2485 Sch1 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00057945 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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
