Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership.

Mary and Early Christian Women -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Background and Perspective -- Mary Magdalene and the Mother of Jesus -- Mary, a Jew -- Mary Remembered in the Extracanonical Gospels -- Methodology -- The Power of Bio-Power -- Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past -- Chapter 2 More Collyridian D�ej�a vu -- The Old Rule-of-Thumb: lectio brevior potior -- Redaction Analysis of Mary's Liturgical Leadership -- A Scene of Mary Exorcising Demons -- Women Using Censers and Incense -- Kernels of Historicity: Women Using Censers Liturgically -- Redaction Analysis of the Markers of Women's Authority -- Chapter 3 Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers -- Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle-The Apostle Mariamne in the Acts of Philip -- Sexual Slander as Evidence of Women in the Clergy -- Irene, Apostle of Jesus -- The Long Narrative About Irene's Life -- Male Re-Baptizers and the Apostle Nino -- Irene Baptizes and Seals -- The "Apostle" Thecla Baptizes and Seals -- Dating Controversy: When Was the Life of Thecla Composed? -- The Thecla Tertullian Knew -- Cultural Context -- Chapter 4 Mary, High Priest and Bishop -- Jesus's Mother Versus 1 Timothy -- Mary in Art: High Priest and Bishop -- Mary with the Episcopal Pallium -- Mary with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant -- Women with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant -- Chapter 5 Mother and Son, Paired -- Mother and Son Paired on Objects Used in the Liturgy -- Dividing the Mother-Son Dyad: The Maria Maggiore Mosaics -- The Mother-Son Dyad in Art Prior to the Council of Ephesus -- Mother and Son Paired in Third- and Fourth-Century Funereal Art -- Chapter 6 The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents -- The Oldest Text of the Life of the Virgin -- The Annunciation to Mary in the Temple -- Mary at the Baptism of Her Son -- The Women at the Lord's Supper.

Partaking at the Temple Altar in the Gospel of Bartholomew -- Gender Parallelism in the Liturgy in the Didascalia Apostolorum -- The Ritual of Body and Blood According to the Apostolic Church Order -- Chapter 7 Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception -- Female and Male Christian Presiders from the Second Century Onwards -- Writings That Paired Male and Female Clerical Titles -- Women Overseers or Bishops -- Cerula and Bitalia, Ordained Bishops -- Historicity of Pulcheria Inside the Holy of Holies of the Second Hagia Sophia -- Female and Male Clergy at the Altar Table in Old Saint Peter's Basilica -- The Ciborium in Old Saint Peter's Basilica -- The Altar in Old Saint Peter's Basilica -- Possible Identification of the Male and Female Officiants at the Altar Table -- Theodora and Justinian in San Vitale: Modeling Mary and Jesus at the Last Supper -- Third-Century Evidence of Gender Parity at the Offering Table -- Chapter 8 Modes of Silencing the Past -- Modes of Silencing the Past -- Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past -- Notes, Abbreviations, and References -- Notes Chapter 2 -- Notes Chapter 3 -- Notes Chapter 4 -- Notes Chapter 5 -- Notes Chapter 6 -- Notes Chapter 7 -- Notes Chapter 8 -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index.

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