Secrets of Mary Magdalene : The Untold Story of History's Most Misunderstood Woman

by Burstein, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781593152055
• ISBN10: 1593152051
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Some of the greatest thinkers of our time address the mystery of Mary Magdalene

Author Biography

Dan Burstein’s “Secrets” series has more than three million books in print worldwide. Burstein is the founder of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in innovative new technology companies. He is an award-winning journalist and author of six prior books on global economics and technology, including Yen!, Euroquake, Road Warriors, and Big Dragon. He is also the co-author of Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business and Culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction by Elaine Pagels	1	(8)
1 Mary Magdalene: Outcast No More	9	(58)
Our Fascination with Mary Magdalene: Confessions of a DaVinci Code Fan by Dan Burstein	10	(11)
Who Was Mary Magdalene? by James Carroll	21	(16)
The Saintly Sinner: The Two-Thousand-Year Obsession with Mary Magdalene by Joan Acocella	37	(18)
Changing Our Perceptions of Mary Magdalene An interview with Bruce Chilton	55	(2)
The Four Marys of the New Testament	57	(3)
The Long Miscast Outcast by Richard Covington	60	(7)
2 Embracing the Traditions of Women and the Sacred	67	(28)
When God Was a Woman: Tales of the Daughters of Eve by Merlin Stone	68	(6)
Sex in the Temple: The Tradition of the Sacred Prostitute An interview with Nancy Qualls-Corbett	74	(7)
Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Union An interview with Margaret Starbird	81	(2)
Mary Magdalene and the Goddess Image by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona	83	(6)
The Women Around Jesus and Their Role in Forming Christianity An interview with Mary Rose D'Angelo	89	(6)
3 Becoming the Apostle of Apostles	95	(40)
Biographical Glimpses of Mary of Magdala by Bruce Chilton	96	(6)
The Gospel of Mary by Karen L. King	102	(4)
The Alternative Gospel Tradition An interview with Marvin Meyer	106	(11)
The Greatest Exaggerations Ever Told: A Critique of the "New" Interpretations of the Gnostic Gospels An interview with Philip Jenkins	117	(8)
Mary Magdalene: An Heretical Portrait by John Lamb Lash	125	(10)
4 Mary Magdalene: Marginalized, Harlotized, and "Put in Her Place"	135	(34)
An Apostle Diminished: The Challenge to Mary Magdalene's Authority An interview with Ann Graham Brock	136	(8)
The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Didn't Get a Chance to Know An interview with Bart D. Ehrman	144	(4)
Penitent Sinner, Apostolic Saint: The Mary Magdalene Cult Emerges by Katherine Ludwig Jansen	148	(6)
The Mary Magdalene Controversies by A me de Keiker	154	(1)
Was She the "Sinful Woman"?	154	(3)
Was She Married to Jesus?	157	(7)
Was She Both the "Beloved Disciple" and the Real Author of the Gospel of John?	164	(2)
Mormonism and Mary Magdalene by Maxine Hanks	166	(3)
5 The Mary Magdalene Roundtable	169	(30)
with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Lesa Bellevie
Deirdre Good
Susan Haskins
Katherine Kurs
Elaine Pagels
Jane Schakerp
6 The Mary Magdalene Mosaic	199	(28)
Revisiting "The Scarlet Lily": Mary Magdalene in Western Art and Culture by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona	200	(11)
Interpreting the Exile Carpet: An Artwork Speaks Through Eighteen Centuries of Time Jeremy Pine	211	(6)
Mary Magdalene's Secret History Encoded in a Seventeenth-Century Epic Poem by John M. Saul	217	(7)
A Painting of Mary Magdalene, Now Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by Dan Burstein	224	(3)
7 The Mary Magdalene of Legend & Lore	227	(24)
Mythologizing Mary Magdalene: The Golden Legend by Jacobus deVoragine	228	(4)
Sacred Theft: The Restless Bones of Mary Magdalene by Katherine Ludwig Jansen	232	(6)
"I Don't Know If She Was Here, but She Is Here"— A Mary Magdalene Pilgrimage to Southern France by Elizabeth Bard	238	(7)
My Pilgrimage to St. Baume by Jane Schaberg	245	(6)
8 Herstory Today: Mary Magdalene in Popular Culture	251	(40)
The Sainf as Vamp: Mary Magdalene on the Silver Screen by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona	252	(7)
The Saint as Pop Star: The Mary Magdalene Effect in Popular Culture by Lesa Bellevie	259	(9)
Piece by Piece: How Mary Magdalene, the Patriarchy, and Sinsuality Have Influenced My Life and Career by Tori Amos	268	(9)
The Willing Secret by Ki Longfellow	277	(6)
Mary Magdalene, Superstar by Kathleen McGowan	283	(8)
9 Thoroughly Modern Mary: A Magdalene for the Twenty-first Century	291	(38)
Mary Magdalene's Spiritual Quest by Deirdre Good	292	(13)
Separate, Not Equal at Ml: The Church and Its Goddess Problem by Anna Quindlen	305	(3)
Following Mary: Magdalene Devotees Shape Their Own Religious Realities by Jennifer Doll	308	(9)
She Moves in Mysterious Ways: Mary Magdalene in the Internet Age by Lesa Bellevie	317	(12)
Appendixes
The Mary Magdalene Bookshelf by the Secrets Team	329	(6)
Mary Magdalene Appearances in the New Testament by Beliefnet Staff	335	(4)
Contributors	339	(10)
Acknowledgments	349