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Mary Magdalene Cover-Up

The Sources Behind the Myth

by Esther A. De Boer

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 16.2 x 23.3 x 1.8 cm

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For those curious about biblical history and Mary Magdalene

Reveals the real story behind Mary Magdalene's image

You will gain a deeper understanding of her true role

This book uncovers the truths and myths surrounding Mary Magdalene.

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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.
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  • Author

    Esther A. De Boer

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 2007

  • Weight

    350g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    16.2 x 23.3 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567031822

  • ISBN-10

    0567031829

  • Eden Code

    1004369

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    This groundbreaking study seeks to uncover Mary Magdalene from all the myths and legends that surround her from Gregory the Great’s smearing of her name by associating her with Luke’s repentant sinner to the legends retold by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code. Esther de Boer reproduces, sometimes for the first time in English, texts from the early centuries of the church from the first century when Mary was alive to the 6th century when her image as a penitent sinner was invented, to seek to discover the truth about her. She reveals a cover up that has its roots not so much in the story of one woman but the status and role of women in the cultures within which the church grew. As she reveals through the texts the cover up that took place and uses them to rethink the history of the early church so she uncovers a role for and by women in leadership in the church. Easy to read and to be recommended.

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