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Title: The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle by Karen L. King ISBN: 0-944344-58-5 Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: So who was Mary anyway?
Comment: WOW! This book will open the eyes of those who are willing to consider Mary Magdalene in ways other than the ways orthodox tradition has portrayed her. If you're looking to broaden your ideas of the role of Mary during post crucifixion times, this is the book for you. Karen L. King provides examples from scripture and texts from early Christianity to back up her statements. It's easy reading, yet thought provoking.
Rating: 5
Summary: A scholarly work should not be confused with a work of faith
Comment: Reviewers who downgrade this scholarly work have confused their beliefs with an impartial evaluation of the merit of this book.
The scholarship here allows us to have a glimpse of the early Christian era separate and apart from the politics--and power--established by the Church.
To say that the Bible in its current form fell from heaven is to preach ignorance, and anyone who wants to know the truth about Jesus and his message will embrace this and other scholarly works if they love the truth.
Rating: 5
Summary: THe apostle to the apostles
Comment: Even in the canonical gospels Mary from Magdala was a remarkable woman. She followed Jesus, witnessed the crucifixion, saw the empty tomb and was one of the first, if not the very first person, the risen Christ appeared to. In Karen King's translation of the Gospel of Mary, she is no less remarkable.
Incomplete, brief and based on three fragments from the 5th and 3rd centuries the Gospel of Mary reveals what Andrew refers to as "strange ideas." In a dialogue first between the risen Savior and disciples, and then between the disciples themselves about a vision of Jesus and teachings revealed to Mary alone ideas are presented that are unique to this gospel although there are clearly echoes of these ideas in other sacred writings. For example, there is a distinction made between the material body and the soul with the true self defined as the soul alone. Sin exists only when the soul is distracted by passions of the body and therefore is estranged from spiritual concerns. The familiar, "seek and you will find" is interpreted as the need to seek inwardly to discover the spiritual that is within us all.
The teachings from Mary's vision of Christ are disputed by Andrew and denied by Peter who says he does not believe that Christ would tell a woman what he did not reveal to men. Levi confronts Andrew and Peter affirming that Mary is spiritually mature and as worthy as anyone. Levi then heeds the direction given by Jesus to go and teach the word.
Ms. King discusses the changing role of women in the early church and the gradual establishment of the canonical gospel. Perhaps most interesting of all, she emphasizes the variety and diversity of early church writings and beliefs reminding us that our religious heritage is much more unsettled and unsettling than out view from the present looking backwards may suggest.
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Title: Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0375501568 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0679724532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup, Joseph Rowe, Jacob Needleman ISBN: 0892819111 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: What Is Gnosticism? : by Karen L. King ISBN: 067401071X Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Woman With the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird, Mary Magdalen, Holy Grail ISBN: 1879181037 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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