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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... bride as a pri- mary symbol.3 There was a long biblical tradition of nuptial imagery . The prophet Hosea , writing before 721 B.C. , came into contact with the Canaanites ' fertility cult and its central drama of the annual marriage of ...
... bride as a pri- mary symbol.3 There was a long biblical tradition of nuptial imagery . The prophet Hosea , writing before 721 B.C. , came into contact with the Canaanites ' fertility cult and its central drama of the annual marriage of ...
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... bride , " a glorious Church not having spot , or wrinkle , or any such thing " ( Ephesians 5:27 ) -a Jewish girl ... bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bride- groom . rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice ...
... bride , " a glorious Church not having spot , or wrinkle , or any such thing " ( Ephesians 5:27 ) -a Jewish girl ... bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bride- groom . rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice ...
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... bride among the 144,000 virgins at the altar of the lamb.11 • . The ceremony of a nun's consecration keeps the symbolism fresh today . " My beloved spake and said unto me , " reads the priest . " Rise up , my love , my fair one and come ...
... bride among the 144,000 virgins at the altar of the lamb.11 • . The ceremony of a nun's consecration keeps the symbolism fresh today . " My beloved spake and said unto me , " reads the priest . " Rise up , my love , my fair one and come ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
Copyright | |
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