Rediscovering the Marys : Maria, Mariamne, Miriam /

This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights into various unsolved mysteries associated with May Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the portrayal of these women as communi...

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Other Authors: Beavis, Mary Ann (Editor), Kateusz, Ally (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: London ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, 2020.
Series:Scriptural traces ; 22.
Library of New Testament studies ; 620.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ally Kateusz, Mary Ann Beavis
  • Section 1. Revisiting which Mary : does which Mary matter? The Magdalene effect : reading and misreading the composite Mary in early Christian works / Mark Goodacre
  • Which Mary, and why it matters / Mary Ann Beavis
  • Why Mary? : the Gospel of Mary and its heroine / Judith Hartenstein
  • What is Mary doing in Acts? : confessional narratives and the synoptic tradition / Jo-Ann Badley
  • Magdalene, mother, Martha's sister, or none of the above? : the Mary in the Dialogue of the Savior / Anna Cwikla
  • Two Mary Magdalenes : Eusebius of Caesarea and the questionable reliability of the gospels' female witnesses / Kara J. Lyons-Pardue
  • Two women leaders : "Mary and the other Mary Magdalene" / Ally Kateusz
  • Section 2. Rediscovering the Marys in mission and leadership. The power of leadership through mediation, or How Mary exercises overlapping authority / Cornelia Horn
  • The constriction of female leadership : tracing a trend in the early reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene / Erez DeGolan, Miriam-Simma Walfish
  • Virgin Mary co-priest or not : the continuing trend of redaction and revision in the medieval era / Judith M. Davis
  • The memory of Mary's mission according to "Guadalupan sermons" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / J. L. Manzo
  • Section 3. Recovering receptions of the Marys in literature, art, and archaeology. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth archaeological excavations 1997-2015 / Richard Freund
  • The dormition of Miriam in rabbinic literature / Michael Rosenberg
  • The dormition urtext? : oldest dormition wall painting combines the Great angel and Women with censers / Ally Kateusz
  • Mary in the Qur'an and extracanonical Christian texts / Deborah Niederer Saxon
  • The origin and manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary / Jin H. Han
  • From Holy grail to The lost gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene romance / Mary Ann Beavis
  • Afterword: The future of Mariamic studies / Mary Ann Beavis, Ally Kateusz.