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| Publication date 17 March 2016. |
The Quest for Mary Magdalene went to press today and will be published in hardback by Profile Books in London on 17 March 2016, in time for Easter which in the Western Church falls on 27 March this year (and in the Orthodox churches on 31 April).
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| Hardback jacket. Click to enlarge. |
In the manner of a quest, this book
follows Mary Magdalene through the centuries, explores how she has
been reinterpreted for every age, and
examines what she herself reveals
about woman and man and the divine.
It seeks the real Mary Magdalene in
the New Testament and in the gnostic
gospels where she is extolled as the
chief disciple of Christ. It investigates
how and why the Church recast her as a fallen woman, it traces her story
through the Renaissance when she
became a goddess of beauty and love,
and it looks at Mary Magdalene as the
feminist icon she has become today.
