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The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha and the Christian testament
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ISBN: 1441141758 9781441141750 9780826416452 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum,

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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 p


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The Da Vinci code in the academy
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ISBN: 1282191624 9786612191626 1443807958 9781443807951 9781847181299 1847181295 9781282191624 6612191627 Year: 2007 Publisher: Newcastle, UK Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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As millions of readers worldwide react to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, so do many scholars. The novel has become a proxy debate for two compelling scholarly and social issues of our time: the feminist/post-feminist challenge to patriarchal authority; and the textual construction of meaning and value. Presenting the feminine as both dominant and sacred brings attention to every text which argues for dominance or divinity. Traditional scholars are being challenged to defend their discipline...

Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene : the followers of Jesus in history and legend
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ISBN: 1282367668 9786612367663 0199742545 9780199742547 9781282367661 0195300130 9780195300130 6612367660 9780199741137 0199741131 0195343506 9780195343502 0197740413 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Historian of religion Ehrman takes readers on a tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. What do the writings of the New Testament tell us about each of these key followers of Christ? What legends have sprung up about them in the centuries after their deaths? Was Paul bow-legged and bald? Was Peter crucified upside down? Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? Ehrman separates fact from fiction, presenting complicated historical issues in a clear and informative way and relating anecdotes culled from the traditions of these three followers.--From publisher description. Ehrman deals with three followers of Jesus who are the most significant: Peter, his closest disciple: Paul, his most important apostle; and Mary Magdalene, his most prominent female follower. This book explains what we can know about each of these figures as real people, and what legends emerged about them after their deaths.

Uttering the word : the mystical performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance visionary
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ISBN: 0585062439 9780585062433 0791439011 079143902X 1438411677 Year: 1998

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Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language.


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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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ISSN: 18773192 ISBN: 9789004231955 9789004232242 9004232249 1283854767 9004231951 Year: 2012 Volume: 7

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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.

Marlene und Jo : Recherche einer Leidenschaft
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ISBN: 3870245336 9783870245337 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berlin Argon

The idea of the image : Josef von Sternberg's Dietrich films
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ISBN: 0838632548 9780838632543 Year: 1988 Publisher: Rutherford London Cranbury, NJ Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Associated University Presses


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Willing seduction : The blue angel, Marlene Dietrich, and mass culture
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ISBN: 9780857456199 0857456199 184545572X 9786612627736 1845459148 1282627732 0857456202 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Ange l ( Der blaue Engel ) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are i

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