To browse Academia. Here's a translation I did from French some years ago that may be of interest to some. Another brief Life of St. Mary Magdalene sometimes referenced in books and papers about her but not, I believe, previously translated out of Latin. Mary Magdalene has been a misunderstood and maligned character since the doctrine now revoked by the Catholic Church that she was a whore.
Yet in the gnostic Gospels she has a different role as consort and special disciple of Jesus. This essay will explore the doctrines and evidence of who Mary was, examining the cBible and those Gospels which did not make it into the Bible, as well as modern myth and folklore. The aim of this article is to give a comprehensive exegetical analysis of the presentation of Mary Magdalene in the four gospels.
We provide a synopsis of all the passages in the NT where Mary Magdalene is mentioned in English to assist the reader in verifying the similarities and the differences between the versions of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Using redaction-critical, literary-critical and feminist-critical methods, we try to uncover the reasons why the four evangelists each develop their own image of Mary Magdalene.
We are grateful to the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders in Brussels FWO for the research grant "Mary Magdalene and the touching of Jesus: An intra-and interdisciplinary investigation of the interpretation of John in exegesis, iconography and pastoral care.
This is an astonishingly wide-ranging and detailed account of Marian devotion from the time of the early Church to the seventeenth century, with afterthoughts on Mary's significance for the modern world. In twenty-three chapters, Rubin asks how and why Mary emerged from relative obscurity in the Gospels to become a "constant presence" p.
