The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament

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 primacy.

• Mary Magdalene Understood
• The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle
• Mary Magdalene, The First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority
• The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives, Expanded Twentieth Anniversary Edition
• Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor
• The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
• The Mary Magdalene Cover-Up: The Sources Behind the Myth
• The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume
• The Gnostic Gospels