The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian TestamentThe 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. > |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Virginia Woolf and Mary Magdalene Thinking Back through the Magdalene | 21 |
Meditations at Migdal | 47 |
Silence Conflation Distortion Legends | 65 |
The Woman Who Understood Too Completely The GnosticApocryphal Mary Magdalene | 121 |
The Christian Testaments Mary Magdalene Scholarly Versions Explorations Erasures | 204 |
Christian Testament Converging Possibilities | 254 |
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