Mary Magdalene from the new testament to the new age and beyond / edited by Edmondo F. Lupieri.

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English
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  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
  • ©2020
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An international team of twenty scholars under Edmondo F. Lupieri’s direction produced Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond . While the historical figure of the Magdalene may be lost forever, the construction of her literary images and their transformations and adaptations over the centuries are a lively testimony to human creativity and faith. Different pictures of Mary travelled through time and space, from history to legend and mythology, crossed religious boundaries, going beyond the various Christianities, to become a “sign of contradiction” for many. This book describes a special case of biblical reception history, that of the New Testament figure of a woman whose presence at the side of Jesus has been disturbing for some, but proves to be inspiring for others.
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction / Edmondo Lupieri
  • New Testament through Late Antiquity
  • The Earliest Magdalene: Varied Portrayals in Early Gospel Narratives / Edmondo Lupieri
  • The Apocryphal Magdalene: Expanding and Limiting Her Importance / Trent A. Rogers
  • The Gnostic Magdalene: Mary as Disciple and Revealer / Cambry G. Pardee
  • The Vine and the Net-Caster: Mandaean and Manichaean Transformations of Mary Magdalene / Emiliano Fiori
  • The Patristic Magdalene: Symbol for the Church and Witness to the Resurrection / Amanda Kunder
  • A Whore from Bethany? A Note on Mary Magdalene in Early Non-Christian Sources / Bas van Os
  • The Magdalene Yesterday and Today in the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife / David A. Creech
  • The Middle Ages through the Modern Age
  • The Cult of Mary Magdalene in the Medieval West / Theresa Gross-Diaz
  • The Magdalene of Medieval Hagiography / Seth J.A. Alexander
  • Suspended between Sacred and Profane: the Iconography of Mary Magdalene from Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century / Marcello Mignozzi
  • The Divided Magdalene: the Three Magdalenes Debate (1517–1519): between Humanism and Enlightenment / Jeffrey M. Tripp
  • The Uncontainable Sexuality of a Penitent Woman: the Magdalene between Baroque and Contemporary Art / Jayna Hoffacker
  • Contemporary Period
  • The Magdalene of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship / Teresa J. Calpino
  • From Disciple to Deviant: the Magdalene in Contemporary Popular Film / Erica-Lyn Saccucci
  • The Magdalene of Internet: New Age, Goddess, and Nature Spiritualities / James S. Mastaler
  • Wife, Queen, Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the New Religious-Spiritual Movements (19th–21st Centuries) / Carla Ricci
  • From Galilee to India: There Is Something about Mary (Magdalene) / Pierluigi Piovanelli
  • Why the Church Needs a Prostitutes’ Saint / Mary Setterholm
  • The Marys in the Contemporary Liturgical Practice of the Mary Magdalene (the) Apostle Catholic Community / Jane Via
  • The Legionaries of Mary Magdalene? / Ludovica Eugenio
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Premodern Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Places.
ISBN
90-04-41106-2
Doi
  • 10.1163/9789004411067
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