Table of Contents

Introduction - A Feminist Reconstruction of the Historical Mary Magdalene

1 A Dig of One's Own

2 Thinking Back through the Magdalene

3 The Woman Who Understood (Too) Completely

4 The Women Did Not Flee

5 Mary Magdalene as Successor to Jesus

Conclusion: The Implications for Contemporary Women

Epilogue: New Reflections on THE DA VINCI CODE

Promotional Information

This book is based on THE RESURRECTION OF MARY MAGDALENE by Jane Schaberg (2002, 2004). explores the silence, conflation, and distortion that characterizes Mary's afterlife in text and image. There is Mary the Whore, the Demon-Possessed Madwoman, and the Penitent. All give glimpses into the significant social anxiety generated by women's sexuality, intelligence, and spirituality--power.

About the Author

Jane Schaberg is Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. She is the author of The Illegitimacy of Jesus, and an editor of On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World. As an acknowledged expert on Mary Magdalene, she has appeared in the Washington Times, on CNN and in Newsweek.
Jane Schaberg is also a contributor to Secrets of Mary Magdalene Edited by Dan Burstein and Arne J. de Keijzer, with an introduction by Elaine H. Pagels.

Reviews

"...Schaberg and Johnson-Debaufre offer a scholarly, engaging and provocative study that advances our knowledge of Mary's history and legend, even ad it raises new questions for the classroom, the church and the heart." —Amy-Jill Levine, Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2008
*Amy-Jill Levine*

Title mention in the Church Times, 2007
*Church Times*

"Schaberg combines biblical scholarship, imagination, and feminist advocacy into a major work of methodological originality that reveals persuasive themes. Schaberg's book breaks new ground and is recommended for all libraries; required for seminary and feminist collections." —Library Journal
*Library Journal*