Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10013
M. Warren
The film Mary Magdalene (2018) has been praised for its focus on one of Jesus’ most overlooked followers. But the film includes subtly negative depictions of Jewishness as well as problematic depictions of Black characters. Despite the film’s stated attempts to reflect first-century contexts, cinematic decisions reinforce harmful stereotypes about Judaism and about Black men. Viewing the film in light of historical Christian-feminist anti-Judaism on the one hand, and on the other, the figure of the ‘Karen’, a white woman who polices the presence and behaviour of Black people, this article investigates the ways in which Mary Magdalene is characterized in line with white feminism, and as such, the ways in which this white Mary is weaponized against Jews and Black people.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10011
Joanna E. Taylor
This essay responds to the four essays concerning the portrays of Mary Magdalene in film and television for the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.
这篇文章回应了《历史耶稣研究杂志》在电影和电视中关于抹大拉玛利亚形象的四篇文章。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10014
Anthony Le Donne
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10009
Anthony Le Donne
This article examines the source material that gave rise to the notion that Jesus befriended sex workers. It considers the first and century evidence. It turns then to medieval fiction for the source of this misunderstanding.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10010
Richard G. Walsh
This response essay responds to the articles on Mary Magdalene in film by James Crossley, Matthew Rindge, Meredith J. C. Warren, and Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1163/17455197-20020001
J. Schröter
This article is an appreciative and critical engagement with Tucker Ferda’s book, Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis.
这篇文章是对Tucker Ferda的书《耶稣、福音书和伽利略危机》的赞赏和批评。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10007
T. S. Ferda
The author offers a grateful reply to his three respondents before clarifying a few matters and responding to queries. Nothing emerges that would require modifications to the main arguments of the book.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10005
Sarah E. Rollens
This article reviews Tucker Ferda’s recent book on the Galilean Crisis Theory, a scholarly theory that holds that Jesus encountered hostility and rejection in Galilee, which spurred significant changes in his mission, including his rather abrupt transition to Jerusalem. This lucid and deftly executed study charts the development of this scholarly theory, before offering its own assessment of Jesus’ mission and its success. With his perceptive assessment of early scholarship, Ferda makes an important contribution to the on-going meta-critical work in historical Jesus studies.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10006
P. Fredriksen
This article explores the historiographical consequences of depending on Markan chronology to reconstruct Jesus’s mission. Mark highlights a “Galilean crisis” as well as the scene in the temple courts (Mk 11:18) as twinned moments of dramatic reversal (peripeteia) that serve to drive his story home to its conclusion, connecting Jesus’s Jewish mission with his Roman death. Analyzing Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis with Mark’s literary deployment of peripeteia in mind, the essay then raises several questions about Ferda’s reconstruction of the reception of Jesus’s message among his Galilean hearers. Jerusalem, not the Galilee, emerges as the true site of “crisis.” Jesus’s popularity among Jews, not a rejection by them, explains most directly Pilate’s decision to neutralize Jesus. Were it not for the narrative shaping of Mark’s story, would we have any reason to presuppose a “Galilean crisis” at all?
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Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1163/17455197-20010001
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