Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Edmondo Lupieri
Part 1: New Testament through Late Antiquity
1 The Earliest Magdalene: Varied Portrayals in Early Gospel Narratives
Edmondo Lupieri
2 The Apocryphal Magdalene: Expanding and Limiting Her Importance
Trent A. Rogers
3 The Gnostic Magdalene: Mary as Disciple and Revealer
Cambry G. Pardee
4 The Vine and the Net-Caster: Mandaean and Manichaean Transformations of Mary Magdalene
Emiliano Fiori
5 The Patristic Magdalene: Symbol for the Church and Witness to the Resurrection
Amanda Kunder
6 A Whore from Bethany? A Note on Mary Magdalene in Early Non-Christian Sources
Bas van Os
7 The Magdalene Yesterday and Today in the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
David A. Creech
Part 2: The Middle Ages through the Modern Age
8 The Cult of Mary Magdalene in the Medieval West
Theresa Gross-Diaz
9 The Magdalene of Medieval Hagiography
Seth J.A. Alexander
10 Suspended between Sacred and Profane: the Iconography of Mary Magdalene from Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century
Marcello Mignozzi
11 The Divided Magdalene: the Three Magdalenes Debate (1517-1519): between Humanism and Enlightenment
Jeffrey M. Tripp
12 The Uncontainable Sexuality of a Penitent Woman: the Magdalene between Baroque and Contemporary Art
Jayna Hoffacker
Part 3: Contemporary Period
13 The Magdalene of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship
Teresa J. Calpino
14 From Disciple to Deviant: the Magdalene in Contemporary Popular Film
Erica-Lyn Saccucci
15 The Magdalene of Internet: New Age, Goddess, and Nature Spiritualities
James S. Mastaler
16 Wife, Queen, Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the New Religious-Spiritual Movements (19th-21st Centuries)
Carla Ricci
17 From Galilee to India: There Is Something about Mary (Magdalene)
Pierluigi Piovanelli
18 Why the Church Needs a Prostitutes' Saint
Mary Setterholm
19 The Marys in the Contemporary Liturgical Practice of the Mary Magdalene (the) Apostle Catholic Community
Jane Via
20 The Legionaries of Mary Magdalene? Regarding Recent News
Ludovica Eugenio
Index
