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Book SynopsisAn 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
