Mary Magdalene from The New Testament to the New Age and beyond /

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 adapta...

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Other Authors: Lupieri, Edmondo (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative; volume24.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.

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Call Number: BS2485 .M374 2020

Table of 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.