The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament. (Briefly Noted).Jane Schaberg presents a consistent feminist interpretation of Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (măg`dələn; formerly, and still in Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, môd`lən, hence maudlin, i.e. in The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament (Continuum, $35). Her sources are the minimal excavations of Migdal, legendary material, the later traditions, Gnostic and apocryphal a·poc·ry·phal adj. 1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. 2. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . New Testament texts, and the canonical The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis. canonical - (Historically, "according to religious law") 1. Mary I (Mary Tudor), 1516–58, queen of England (1553–58), daughter of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragón. the successor to Jesus, an alternative to the Petrine tradition. This challenging and radically feminist book shows how much one's presuppositions influence conclusions. |
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