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...years after her death, a couple flies together through the air, as Chagall and Bella had done in so many of his other paintings. Those airborne pairs are his loveliest contribution to Western imagery, a secular version of Christianity's great floating figures, the Ascension of Christ and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
...exalted memories, he would become the master poet of the Jewish world, the Walt Whitman of the shtetl. But all his life he also adapted Christian imagery to his own purposes. (Remember those flying lovers?) He returned again and again to the Crucifixion but in versions in which Christ is plainly an executed Jew, his loins wrapped in a blue-striped Jewish prayer shawl. By the late 1930s, in paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign for the escalating pain of European Jews...
...serves nicely to illustrate the way in which any retrieval of Magdalene as a "winner" inevitably shakes up current assumptions about male church leadership. After Pope John Paul II prohibited even the discussion of female priests in 1995, he cited "the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men ..." That argument would seem weakened in light of the "new" Magdalene, whom the Pope himself has acknowledged by the once unfashionable title "Apostle to the Apostles." Chester Gillis, chair of the department of theology at Georgetown University, says conventional Catholics still feel that Mary...
...goes down in history as a woman who truly loved Jesus with all her heart and was not embarrassed to show it despite criticism from others." That is certainly part of her traditional resume. Many Christian churches would add her importance as an example of the power of Christ's love to save even the most fallen humanity, and of repentance. (The word maudlin derives from her reputation as a tearful penitent.) Centuries of Catholic teaching also established her colloquial identity as the bad girl who became the hope of all bad girls, the saved siren active not only...
...heroics at the tomb are still omitted from the Easter Sunday liturgy, relegated instead to midweek.) And in the meantime, more scholarship has stoked the fires of those who see her eclipse as a chauvinist conspiracy. Historians of Christianity are increasingly fascinated with a group of early followers of Christ known broadly as the Gnostics, some of whose writings were unearthed only 55 years ago. And the Gnostics were fascinated by Magdalene. The so-called Gospel of Mary [Magdalene], which may date from as early as A.D. 125 (or about 40 years after John's Gospel), describes her as having...