By F. Stanley Jones
This booklet brings jointly state of the art contributions on early Christian Marys, supplying a number of views via top students, suggesting solutions for identified questions and trying to reframe the dialogue via new questions. The stories overview the hot perception that the a little bit innovative Mary in historic Christian writings who has usually been assumed to be Mary Magdalene is typically exact to be Mary the mum of Jesus. The publication analyzes the cross-fertilization of traditions that has it seems that happened and in addition probes into the earliest preserved traditions at the Marys, either canonical and non-canonical, as preserved in Western and Oriental languages. those essays have been at first provided on the 2000 Society of Biblical Literature Annual assembly. F. Stanley Jones offers an advent; the individuals are Francois Bovon, Ann Grahan Brock, Karen L. King, Jonathan Knight, Antti Narjanen, Stephen J. Shoemaker, and George T. Zervos. Paperback version is out there from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
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The important question is of course how these nonspecified references are to be explained. Shoemaker’s attempt to use the text of the Lukan birth narrative as an interpretive key is not convincing. 21 This epithet is also repeated later. As we have noted above, it is furthermore important to realize that in all those instances in Pistis Sophia in which Mary is explicitly identified as the mother of Jesus her name is never spelled in any other way than maria. “The other Mary,” the Magdalene, is frequently written mariham as well.
14 below). 8 Marjanen, The Woman Jesus Loved, 63–64. , Pistis Sophia (trans. V. MacDermot; NHS 9; Leiden: Brill, 1978). In the present article, the references to Pistis Sophia are made according to this work. The first number gives the page number of the Coptic text, the second number refers to the line. 13, which is the only other passage in the entire writing where Mary, explicitly characterized as the mother of Jesus, occurs. 34 Antti Marjanen this, it has to be admitted that, generally speaking, the use of the name mariham(mee) is not a conclusive argument for maintaining that in instances where this particular form of the name is used it must refer to Mary Magdalene.
As Ephrem comments on Tatian’s account of the empty tomb and the resurrection, he occasionally cites the Diatessaron’s text, which, as he reports it, apparently failed to identify the woman who discovers the tomb and sees the risen Christ as Mary Magdalene. ” Then, when Ephrem comes to the passage describing Christ’s postresurrection appearance to Mary, he ponders Christ’s command that Mary not touch him, which he explains as follows: “Why, therefore, did he prevent Mary from touching him? ”94 Thus the woman to whom Christ first appeared, the Magdalene in John’s Gospel, is instead identified here as Christ’s mother, whom he had entrusted to the care of his beloved disciple.
