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A bewildering array of books have been published about Mary Magdalene from academic monographs to Idiot's Guides making it difficult to know what is fact and what is fiction. This is the first book to contain ALL the important Early Christian texts about Mary Magdalene. Now they are together in one book and give a clear picture of the early Christian discussion about Mary Magdalene and her contribution to the beginnings of Christianity. This book provides a fascinating glimpse in to the ongoing debate about the central beliefs and the role of men and women in Christianity....
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| Author / Artist | Esther A. De Boer |
| Book Format | Hardcover |
| Publisher | Continuum |
| Date Published | 2007-06-30 |
| Number of Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780567032232 |
| ISBN-10 | 056703223X |
| Product ID | 1004378 |
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Each text is accompanied by an informed and lively commentary by the author placing it in its historical context. This combination of original texts and commentary enables the reader to draw their own conclusions about this most enigmatic of first-century women.
Table Of Contents
The Mary Magdalene Cover-Up
Who Was Mary Magdalene?
Disciple and Witness
Mary's Teaching
Apostle
Eve and the Apostle of the Apostles
Mary Magdalene as an Argument
A Woman to Learn From?
Two Forces
The East and the West
'Has He Chosen Her Above Us?'
Authors
Esther A. de Boer completed her Ph.D. at the Theological University of Kampen, Holland. She is the author of Mary Magdalene: beyond the Myth (Trinity Press International, 1997)
Reviews
"Esther de Boer’s work is a valuable resource for current and future scholars interested in rethinking the history of early Christianity. She has gathered here all the relevant texts we now know, canonical and apocryphal and patristic, some of which appear in English here for the first time. Her presentation is clearly organized (introduction, texts, explanation). I highly recommend it for those who want to join the conversation."
Jane Schaberg, University of Detroit Mercy
Full Description
Mary Magdalene has always been the subject of both popular and scholarly intrigue. Was she the wife of Jesus, his complete initiate, a Goddess or a priestess? Did the Church dramatically alter her image to deny her importance? These questions have inspired representations of her in art, film and literature, from Caravaggio to The Last Temptation of Christ and The Da Vinci Code. The Mary Magdalene Cover-Up is the first book to bring the original sources that have informed our current day view of Mary to a wider audience. Esther de Boer has brought together an impressive array of texts from the first century, when Mary Magdalene was alive, to the sixth century, when her image as a penitent sinner was invented.Each text is accompanied by an informed and lively commentary by the author placing it in its historical context. This combination of original texts and commentary enables the reader to draw their own conclusions about this most enigmatic of first-century women.
Table Of Contents
The Mary Magdalene Cover-Up
Who Was Mary Magdalene?
Disciple and Witness
Mary's Teaching
Apostle
Eve and the Apostle of the Apostles
Mary Magdalene as an Argument
A Woman to Learn From?
Two Forces
The East and the West
'Has He Chosen Her Above Us?'
Authors
Esther A. de Boer completed her Ph.D. at the Theological University of Kampen, Holland. She is the author of Mary Magdalene: beyond the Myth (Trinity Press International, 1997)
Reviews
"Esther de Boer’s work is a valuable resource for current and future scholars interested in rethinking the history of early Christianity. She has gathered here all the relevant texts we now know, canonical and apocryphal and patristic, some of which appear in English here for the first time. Her presentation is clearly organized (introduction, texts, explanation). I highly recommend it for those who want to join the conversation."
Jane Schaberg, University of Detroit Mercy
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