Rediscovering the Marys

Mary Ann Beavis is Professor of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, Canada.Ally Kateusz is Research Associate at Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research, UK.

• AbbreviationsFiguresIntroduction – Ally Kateusz and Mary Ann BeavisSection 1: Revisiting Which Mary – Does Which Mary Matter?1. The Magdalene Effect: Misreading the Composite Mary in Early Christian Works – Mark Goodacre2. Which Mary, and Why It Matters – Mary Ann Beavis3. Why Mary? The Gospel of Mary and Its Heroine – Judith Hartenstein4. What is Mary Doing in Acts? Reception History within the Synoptic Tradition – Jo-Ann Badley5. Magdalene, Mother, Martha’s Sister, or None of the Above? The Mary in the Dialogue of theSavior – Anna Cwikla6. Two Mary Magdalenes: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Questionable Reliability of the Gospels’Female Witnesses – Kara J. Lyons-Pardue7. Two Women Leaders: “Mary and the Other Mary Magdalene” – Ally KateuszSection 2: Rediscovering the Marys in Mission and Leadership8. The Power of Leadership through Mediation: Mart Mariam in the Syriac and Arabic Apocryphal Tradition – Cornelia Horn9. The Constriction of Female Leadership: Tracing a Trend in the Early Reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene – Erez DeGolan and Miriam-Simma Walfish10. Virgin Mary Co–Priest or Not: The Continuing Trend of Redaction and Revision in the Medieval Era – Judith M. Davis11. The Memory of Mary’s Mission according to “Guadalupan Sermons” of the 17th and 18th Centuries – J.L. ManzoSection 3: Recovering Receptions of the Marys in Literature, Art, and Archeology12. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth Archaeological Excavations 1997–2015 – Richard Freund13. The Dormition of Miriam – Michael Rosenberg14. Dormition Urtext? Earliest Dormition Wall Painting Combines the Great Angel and Women with Censers – Ally Kateusz 15. Mary and Her Son in the Qur’an and Extracanonical Christian Texts – Deborah Niederer Saxon 16. The Origin and Manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary – Jin H. Han 17. From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance – Mary Ann BeavisAfterword – Mary Ann Beavis and Ally KateuszContributorsReferencesIndexes