The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament

The controversy surrounding Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code has intensified interest in Mary Magdalene and Jane Schaberg provides an authoritative source for a deeper understanding and re-assessment of this popular figure. Within a progressive feminist framework, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene approaches Christian Testament sources through analysis of legend, archaeology, and gnostic/apocryphal traditions. This is the story of the suppression and distortion of a powerful woman leader — Schaberg presents Mary Magdalene as successor to Jesus in a challenging alternative to the Petrine primacy.

• Author
• Jane Schaberg

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 382

• Publisher
• Bloomsbury Academic

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780826416452

• Genres
• religion, history, gnosticism, christianity, theology

• Release date
• 2004