Models of Authority and Debate in the Gospel of Mary

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Chapter One Introduction
• History of Scholarship
• Texts, Provenance, and Dating
• Genre and Literary Unity
• Definition and Discussion of ‘Gnosticism’
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Two Methodological Clarification: Narrative Criticism
• Premises and Procedure of Narrative Criticism
• Text as a Self-Contained Whole
• Text as a Motivated Discourse
• The Generation of Meaning in a Dialogical Process
• The Role of Cultural Context in the Generation of Meaning
• Theories of Characterization, Emplotment, and Point-of-View Crafting
• Characters and Characterization
• Plot and Emplotment
• Point-of-View Crafting
• Expected Reading: Identifying the Textual and Extratextual Clues
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Three Extratext for the Implied Reader: Models of Authority in Antiquity
• The Means: Authority of Divine Revelation
• Divine Revelation in Jewish Literature
• Divine Revelation in Non-Jewish Literature
• The Agent: Authority of the Tradition of a Cultural Heroic Figure
• The Phenomenon of Pseudepigraphy and Its Authorizing Function
• The Extratextual Information about Mary a Cultural Heroic Figure
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Four The Gospel of Mary: How to Make Truth-Authority Claims
• Comparison of the Greek and Coptic Versions
• Comparison of POxy 3525 and BG 8502 9:5–13
• Comparison of PRyl 463 and BG 8502 17:5–19:5
• The Structure of the Text
• The Function of the Narrative Framework
• The Function of the Characters and Point-of-View Crafting
• Exegesis: “Is She More Worthy than Us?”
• Initial Situation (7:1–9:5a)
• Initiation of Tension (9:5b–12a)
• Development of Tension (9:12b–18:15a)
• Resolution of Tension (18:15b–21a)
• Final Situation (18:21b–19:2)
• Conclusion: the Divine Revelation of Mary the Savior’s Favorite
• Chapter Five Summary and Conclusion
• Index
• Series index