Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41028-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Themes in Biblical Narrative

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

F Lupieri, Edmondo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Edmondo F. Lupieri, Lic., 1973, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, has taught at the universities of Rome, Turin, and Udine and currently is the John Cardinal Cody Chair in Theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He has published extensively on New Testament, Early Christianity, Christian and non-Christian Gnosticism, and on various phenomena of religious Syncretism.