""Within a progressive feminist framework, [this book] approaches Christian Testament sources through analysis of legend, archaeology, and Gnostic/apocryphal traditions. [This book] exposes multiple strategies of suppression of the memory of Mary Magdalene. These are traced, from the unfinished excavations of Migdal (Magdala) to the conflation and distortion that produce legends, to the diminishment and erasure in much contemporary scholarship of the women at the cross and tomb. A set of interlocking possibilities about the basileia movement of Jesus and his companions brings these women into new focus."--Dust jacket."
"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."@en

"The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha and the Christian testament"@en
"The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha and the Christian testament"
"The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha, and the Christian testament"
"The resurrection of Mary Magdalene legends, apocrypha, and the Christian testament"@en
"The resurrection of Mary Magdalene : legends, apocrypha, and the Christian Testament"