PrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction - Mary Ann Beavis, St. Thomas More College, Canada and Ally Kateusz, University of Missouri-Kansas City Section I. Revisiting Which Mary: Does Which Mary Matter? 2. The Magdalene Effect: Misreading the Composite Mary in Early Christian Works - Mark Goodacre, Duke University, USA3. Which Mary? Mary of Bethany, of Course - Mary Ann Beavis, St. Thomas More College, Canada4. Why Mary? The Gospel of Mary and Its Heroine - Judith Hartenstein, University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany5.
Magdalene, Mother, Martha's Sister, or None of the Above? The Mary in the Dialogue of theSavior - Anna Cwikla, University of Toronto, Canada6. Two Mary Magdalenes: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Questionable Reliability of the Gospels'Female Witnesses - Kara J. Lyons-Pardue, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA7. Collyridian Déjà vu: The Trajectory of Redaction of the Markers of Mary's Liturgical Authority - Ally Kateusz, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Section II. Rediscovering Mary of Nazareth: Mission and Leadership 8. "She sacrificed herself as the priest": Female and Male Co-Priests in Early Christianity - Ally Kateusz, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA9. Mary as Priest: Neglected Evidence from Byzantine Art - Matthew J. Milliner, Wheaton College, USA10.
Virgin Mary Co-Priest or Not: The Continuing Trend of Redaction and Revision in the Medieval - Era Judith M. Davis, Goshen College, USA11. The Power of Leadership through Mediation: Mart Mariam in the Syriac and Arabic ApocryphalTradition - Cornelia Horn, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany12. The Memory of Mary's Mission according to "Guadalupan Sermons" of the 17th and 18thCenturies - Laura Manzo, University of St. Thomas, USA Section III. Recovering Receptions of the Marys in Literature, Art, and Archeology 13. What is Mary Doing in Acts? Reception History within the Synoptic Tradition - Jo-Ann Badley, Ambrose University, USA14. Mary of Nazareth and Nazareth Archaeological Excavations 1997-2015 - Richard Freund, University of Hartford, USA15.
The Dormition of Miriam - Michael Rosenberg, Hebrew College, USA16. Dormition Urtext? Earliest Dormition Wall Painting Combines the Great Angel and Women withCensers - Ally Kateusz, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA17. Mary and Her Son in the Qur'an and ExtraCanonical Christian Texts - Deborah Niederer Saxon, Franklin College, USA18. The Origin and Manifestations of the Smiling Virgin Mary - Jin H. Han, New York Theological Seminary, USA19. From Holy Grail to The Lost Gospel: Margaret Starbird and the Mary Magdalene Romance - Mary Ann Beavis, St. Thomas More College, CanadaIndex.