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Title: The Quest for Mary Magdalene Author: Michael Haag Format: Paperback | 336 Pages From Michael Haag, the internationally bestselling author of The Templars: The History & the Myth and The Tragedy of the Templars, comes a fascinating account of one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in religious history Mary Magdalene is a potent and enigmatic figure. In the gospels, she finances Jesus’ mission in Galilee and is the only person with Jesus at his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection—the critical moments that define his purpose and give rise to a new religion. Yet in the sixth century, Mary Magdalene fell foul of a profound argument in which the established, ritualized, and hierarchical Church required that God be worshipped through itself, whereas everything about Mary Magdalene suggests a more immediate and personal experience of the divine. Pope Gregory reduced Mary Magdalene from an independent visionary to a sinner and a prostitute while making Jesus’ mother Mary, who is a nonentity in the gospels, into a creature of the Church, hailing her as the epitome of all things feminine and holy. In The Quest for Mary Magdalene, historian Michael Haag presents Mary Magdalene as the woman at the center of Jesus’s life, a visionary and a radically independent woman. He explores how she has been used and abused and reinterpreted in every age, and he examines what she reveals about men and women, Jesus and God. “Mirroring the title and scope of Albert Schweitzer’s The Quest of the Historical Jesus, Haag pushes back legend and myth to uncover the real Mary Magdalene…an exceptional overview of how she has been viewed by various cultures through the ages…A thought-provoking re-examination of a misunderstood heroine of the Bible.” –Kirkus Product Dimension: approx. W2cm x L13cm x H20cm Product Weight: approx. 0.2kg