The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Aug 31, 2004 - Religion - 382 pages
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. >
 

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
Mary Magdalene as Successor to Jesus
300
Works That Mention Mary Magdalene Not Found at Nag Hammadi
357
1 Enoch 7071
360
The Human One
363
Index
367
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Jane Schaberg is Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. She is the author of The Illegitimacy of Jesus, and an editor of On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World. As an acknowledged expert on Mary Magdalene, she has appeared in the Washington Times, on CNN and in Newsweek.
Jane Schaberg is also a contributor to Secrets of Mary Magdalene Edited by Dan Burstein and Arne J. de Keijzer, with an introduction by Elaine H. Pagels.

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