Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary"Devoting different sections of the book to each of the various roles Mary has assumed - Virgin, Queen, Bride, Mother, Intercessor - and drawing on official dogma, folk legend, art, history, literature and psychology, the author of Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances from the first century to the present day, and why, for all their beauty and power (and indeed because of them), the legends of Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority"--Google books description |
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... Song of Songs was attributed to King Solomon , who is mentioned as the lover of the poem ( Song of Solomon 3 : 7 , 9 ) , and it was therefore placed among the Wisdom books of the Bible , also ascribed to the great sage . Debate over its ...
... Song of Songs was attributed to King Solomon , who is mentioned as the lover of the poem ( Song of Solomon 3 : 7 , 9 ) , and it was therefore placed among the Wisdom books of the Bible , also ascribed to the great sage . Debate over its ...
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... ( Song of Solomon 5:10 ) . In similar strain he sings : " Thy navel is like a round gob- let , which wanteth not liquor : thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies " ( Song of Solomon 7 : 2 ) . There has never been a more ...
... ( Song of Solomon 5:10 ) . In similar strain he sings : " Thy navel is like a round gob- let , which wanteth not liquor : thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies " ( Song of Solomon 7 : 2 ) . There has never been a more ...
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... ( Song of Solomon 6:10 ) , and she rises into paradise like " pillars of smoke , perfumed with myrrh and frankincense " ( Song of Solo- mon 3 : 6 ) . He is so carried away with his theme that at the end of one of these sermons on the ...
... ( Song of Solomon 6:10 ) , and she rises into paradise like " pillars of smoke , perfumed with myrrh and frankincense " ( Song of Solo- mon 3 : 6 ) . He is so carried away with his theme that at the end of one of these sermons on the ...
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MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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