Mary Ann Beavis is Professor of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, Canada.Ally Kateusz is Research Associate at Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research, UK.

• AbbreviationsFiguresIntroduction – Ally Kateusz and Mary Ann BeavisSection 1: Revisiting Which Mary – Does Which Mary Matter?1. The Magdalene Effect: Misreading the Composite Mary in Early Christian Works – Mark Goodacre2. Which Mary, and Why It Matters – Mary Ann Beavis3. Why Mary? The Gospel of Mary and Its Heroine – Judith Hartenstein4. What is Mary Doing in Acts? Reception History within the Synoptic Tradition – Jo-Ann Badley5. Magdalene, Mother, Martha’s Sister, or None of the Above? The Mary in the Dialogue of theSavior – Anna Cwikla6. Two Mary Magdalenes: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Questionable Reliability of the Gospels’Female Witnesses – Kara J. Lyons-Pardue7. Two Women Leaders: “Mary and the Other Mary Magdalene” – Ally KateuszSection 2: Rediscovering the Marys in Mission and Leadership8. The Power of Leadership through Mediation: Mart Mariam in the Syriac and Arabic Apocryphal Tradition – Cornelia Horn9. The Constriction of Female Leadership: Tracing a Trend in the Early Reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene – Erez DeGolan and Miriam-Simma Walfish10. Virgin Mary Co–Priest or Not: The Continuing Trend of Redaction and Revision in the Medieval Era – Judith M. Davis11. The Memory of Mary’s Mission according to “Guadalupan Sermons” of the 17th and 18th Centuries – J.L. ManzoSection 3: Recovering Receptions of the Marys in Literature, Art, and Archeology12. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth Archaeological Excavations 1997–2015 – Richard Freund13. The Dormition of Miriam – Michael Rosenberg14. Dormition Urtext? Earliest Dormition Wall Painting Combines the Great Angel and Women with Censers – Ally Kateusz 15. Mary and Her Son in the Qur’an and Extracanonical Christian Texts – Deborah Niederer Saxon 16. The Origin and Manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary – Jin H. Han 17. From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance – Mary Ann BeavisAfterword – Mary Ann Beavis and Ally KateuszContributorsReferencesIndexes

Mary Ann Beavis is Professor of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, Canada.Ally Kateusz is Research Associate at Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research, UK.

• AbbreviationsFiguresIntroduction – Ally Kateusz and Mary Ann BeavisSection 1: Revisiting Which Mary – Does Which Mary Matter?1. The Magdalene Effect: Misreading the Composite Mary in Early Christian Works – Mark Goodacre2. Which Mary, and Why It Matters – Mary Ann Beavis3. Why Mary? The Gospel of Mary and Its Heroine – Judith Hartenstein4. What is Mary Doing in Acts? Reception History within the Synoptic Tradition – Jo-Ann Badley5. Magdalene, Mother, Martha’s Sister, or None of the Above? The Mary in the Dialogue of theSavior – Anna Cwikla6. Two Mary Magdalenes: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Questionable Reliability of the Gospels’Female Witnesses – Kara J. Lyons-Pardue7. Two Women Leaders: “Mary and the Other Mary Magdalene” – Ally KateuszSection 2: Rediscovering the Marys in Mission and Leadership8. The Power of Leadership through Mediation: Mart Mariam in the Syriac and Arabic Apocryphal Tradition – Cornelia Horn9. The Constriction of Female Leadership: Tracing a Trend in the Early Reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene – Erez DeGolan and Miriam-Simma Walfish10. Virgin Mary Co–Priest or Not: The Continuing Trend of Redaction and Revision in the Medieval Era – Judith M. Davis11. The Memory of Mary’s Mission according to “Guadalupan Sermons” of the 17th and 18th Centuries – J.L. ManzoSection 3: Recovering Receptions of the Marys in Literature, Art, and Archeology12. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth Archaeological Excavations 1997–2015 – Richard Freund13. The Dormition of Miriam – Michael Rosenberg14. Dormition Urtext? Earliest Dormition Wall Painting Combines the Great Angel and Women with Censers – Ally Kateusz 15. Mary and Her Son in the Qur’an and Extracanonical Christian Texts – Deborah Niederer Saxon 16. The Origin and Manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary – Jin H. Han 17. From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance – Mary Ann BeavisAfterword – Mary Ann Beavis and Ally KateuszContributorsReferencesIndexes

Mary Ann Beavis is Professor of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, Canada.Ally Kateusz is Research Associate at Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research, UK.

• AbbreviationsFiguresIntroduction – Ally Kateusz and Mary Ann BeavisSection 1: Revisiting Which Mary – Does Which Mary Matter?1. The Magdalene Effect: Misreading the Composite Mary in Early Christian Works – Mark Goodacre2. Which Mary, and Why It Matters – Mary Ann Beavis3. Why Mary? The Gospel of Mary and Its Heroine – Judith Hartenstein4. What is Mary Doing in Acts? Reception History within the Synoptic Tradition – Jo-Ann Badley5. Magdalene, Mother, Martha’s Sister, or None of the Above? The Mary in the Dialogue of theSavior – Anna Cwikla6. Two Mary Magdalenes: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Questionable Reliability of the Gospels’Female Witnesses – Kara J. Lyons-Pardue7. Two Women Leaders: “Mary and the Other Mary Magdalene” – Ally KateuszSection 2: Rediscovering the Marys in Mission and Leadership8. The Power of Leadership through Mediation: Mart Mariam in the Syriac and Arabic Apocryphal Tradition – Cornelia Horn9. The Constriction of Female Leadership: Tracing a Trend in the Early Reception of Miriam and Mary Magdalene – Erez DeGolan and Miriam-Simma Walfish10. Virgin Mary Co–Priest or Not: The Continuing Trend of Redaction and Revision in the Medieval Era – Judith M. Davis11. The Memory of Mary’s Mission according to “Guadalupan Sermons” of the 17th and 18th Centuries – J.L. ManzoSection 3: Recovering Receptions of the Marys in Literature, Art, and Archeology12. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth Archaeological Excavations 1997–2015 – Richard Freund13. The Dormition of Miriam – Michael Rosenberg14. Dormition Urtext? Earliest Dormition Wall Painting Combines the Great Angel and Women with Censers – Ally Kateusz 15. Mary and Her Son in the Qur’an and Extracanonical Christian Texts – Deborah Niederer Saxon 16. The Origin and Manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary – Jin H. Han 17. From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance – Mary Ann BeavisAfterword – Mary Ann Beavis and Ally KateuszContributorsReferencesIndexes