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1 online resource (382 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
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APPENDIX B: 1 Enoch 70-71APPENDIX C: The Human One; Index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mary Magdalene, Saint.
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Mary Magdalene, Saint. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schaberg, Jane. Resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha and the Christian testament. New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, 2004, ©2002 379 pages 9780826416452 |
| ISBN |
9781441141750 (electronic book) |
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1441141758 (electronic book) |
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9780826416452 |
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