Mary and Early Christian Women : : Hidden Leadership.

• Author: Kateusz, Ally.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 pages)

Table of Contents

• 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 Déjà 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.