Stood weeping outside the tomb: dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene

Fisk, A. (2017) Stood weeping outside the tomb: dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene. In: Sherwood, Y. (ed.) Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198722618 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0009)

Abstract

This chapter concerns the task of mourning and re-membering in feminist scholarship, imaged through the Gospel narratives of Mary Magdalene weeping at the empty tomb of Jesus. It reads biblical scholar Jane Schaberg’s efforts at feminist historical reconstruction of Mary Magdalene’s witness to the resurrection, along with novelist Michèle Roberts’s reflections on the impossibility of feminist revisioning. Alongside this scholarly mourning, I tell my own Easter story, of my friend’s death in our early twenties. Fragments from feminist biblical scholarship and literature, placed alongside bits of autobiography are pieced together to produce a collage that maintains the necessity of mourning and the inevitable failure of feminist revisioning.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Additional Information: Online publication date: January 2018.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Fisk, Dr Anna
• Authors: Fisk, A.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > Theology and Religious Studies
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• ISBN: 9780198722618

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