This is the type of deep dive into original manuscripts that change our thinking and push forward the truth buried in scripture. Thank you for presenting this new knowledge to us “normal people” who are still learning to swim and need the deep divers like Libby and yourself.
I recall coming across the research on variants of this text and a possible editing which replaced Mary with Martha. John certainly has a great interest in saying something through Mary Magdalene. I need a refresher on identifying her with Mary of Bethany. I think you wrote something about this, previously. Can you direct me to that? Meanwhile, Jesus' words, "One thing is needful" seem pregnant with meaning waiting to be brought to light.
Each time I have heard you present this recent research, both in the sermon on John 11, and today, again, in the story of the anointing, goosebumps cover my body, my heart fills up and tears come.
I have always instinctively been drawn to Mary Magdalene.… Thank you.
This blessed me in such a glorious way! Thank you for your words, your work, your scholarship and for highlighting this poignant research of Ms. Shrader’s. I needed to hear this.
Compare The Prayer you have at the bottom of your article,
PRAYER
Lord, you bring us into being
and let our lives touch your heart:
may the fragrance of our worship
draw us closer to your open heart
and free us from our clinging
to the things we can control;
through Jesus Christ, the passion of God.
Amen.
— Steven Shakespeare
And these 5 million children who need the passion of your God. We are the richest nation on the planet and some people call us a, Christian Nation. So these deaths should be preventable.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality ...Jan 10, 2023
Amen! To see God's other half reclaimed from patriarchy after thousands of years is so exciting. But doing so cannot diminish God--if God is not all He there's not less of God to be the female side. Thank you Diana, for giving me goosebumps--wonder how the world will rectify the tawdry false portrait of MM as nothing more than a prostitute? So shameful to try to burn a Tower like this Mary to the ground. I may never be anything close to a tower, but now I think I am beginning to see over the heads of some of the men who'd like to block our view as we run out to meet Jesus.
Now we say Alleluia, for taking Mary Magdalene out of hiding and giving her agency in our true spiritual journey WITH her! Thank you, AND Libbie Schrader for this blessed scholarship!
...our journey through Holy Week — trust, serve, bless, witness, and proclaim.
Our Sunday Adult Study group has been studying John since August. Our studies are most often led by lay leaders. I am one of those leaders. I am just a beginner at doing this. I am an infant in my Bible studies. This is an unusual group of people because all questions are reasonable and no one is supposed to have all the answers. This study has generated wonderful discussion. Yesterday it was my turn and we discussed John 20. Our hour long study flew by with an amazing discussion. I talked about Libbie’s work. Thank you for continuing to highlight Libbie’s work. We did not finish our discussion which is our norm. We will continue next week.
Is this particular letter shareable to non-subscribers? I know the sermon would be of great value to the group.
Thank you for your sermon on Mary Magdalene. Many years ago, a friend of mine had read a book on Mary Magdalene and he strongly recommended I read the book. I appreciate your reflections on her! Many thanks! Have a beautiful Holy Week.
I'm thrilled to dive into all these treasures. I feel the Cottage is what I need to appreciate female scholarship of the accepted cannon of the Bible. That being said I will tell you why this is my last post.
In the 70s and 80s I witnessed the scholarship of nursing geared towards accepting nursing as an independent profession with a unique body of knowledge - not just the doctor's handmaiden and Medicine Mama-holding-your-hand -while-emptying-your-bedpan servant.
So) I appreciate women biblical scholars struggling for legitimacy of unique insight into the accepted cannon.
However, knowing and knowledge are different, yes?
My favorite gnostic gospel is Pistis Sophia where Jesus not only describes preincarnation choosing 12 male and 12 female disciples, I believe he describes how he attained his light body for resurrection return to continue teaching those disciples. I am not sure of this - I am not a scholar - this is my interpretation.
WHY I LIKE IT. Pistis Sophia (Faith Wisdom) is a heavenly being who becomes enchanted with her own light and falls from grace - something I do quite frequently. But she utters 13 repentences narrated by Jesus to which his disciples answer with psalm solutions. Of the 13 disciples who come up with the
solutions, 3 are women. Mary, Martha and Salome. If you study the Gnostic Gospels, there is Mary Magdalene, another Mary, Salome - I do not know if anymore are named -
There are so many editions, descriptions of these gospels - Thomas, Philip, Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Gospel of Truth for my own self the best.
The little handbook edition I have is from the Gnostic Gospels sacred wisdom series by Alan Jacobs, Watkins publishing. Pistis Sophia is the translation by G Mead. I like the handbook because it is text without interpretation or comment.
But the Gnostic Gospels include Peter's jealousy of Mary Magdalene's understanding Jesus better and this is probably why they are not in the cannon. I mean, you have to enter the ground floor before the top, right?
But mostly I study the accepted cannon with the apocrypha. But your scholarship is thrilling to me.
The reason I will not comment furthur on your post is because I'm an "it's all the same truth" as I study all the religions at their mystical core and I can't help but comment from that point and I don't want to disturb the purity of your scholarship of the accepted cannon. I'm just saying - Peter was a little prejudiced and it is my belief that the mystical texts were hidden and survived when science would allow understanding, as mystics and science are tending to converge in understanding creation and the mystical laws - What you sew you reap = action and reaction = karma and reincarnation. We do
not get from ground floor to penthouse in one leap unless a boddhisattva - which - I don't know? Do you feel like you've been here before?
Thank you for your scholarship and I'm thrilled with all your offerings and forgive my silence because I do not want to create arguement -which I tend to do. Fools argue, wise men discuss. However, I
have found my favorite religious movies are Shoes of the Fisherman and Yentyl - and instead of JC superstar yesterday, I watched Yentyl - so in reference to the "toxic" post yesterday and why I reflected on it, Yentyl quotes a rabbi (I forget exactly) A wise man is one who can stretch a narrow mind."
This is the type of deep dive into original manuscripts that change our thinking and push forward the truth buried in scripture. Thank you for presenting this new knowledge to us “normal people” who are still learning to swim and need the deep divers like Libby and yourself.
I recall coming across the research on variants of this text and a possible editing which replaced Mary with Martha. John certainly has a great interest in saying something through Mary Magdalene. I need a refresher on identifying her with Mary of Bethany. I think you wrote something about this, previously. Can you direct me to that? Meanwhile, Jesus' words, "One thing is needful" seem pregnant with meaning waiting to be brought to light.
Each time I have heard you present this recent research, both in the sermon on John 11, and today, again, in the story of the anointing, goosebumps cover my body, my heart fills up and tears come.
I have always instinctively been drawn to Mary Magdalene.… Thank you.
This blessed me in such a glorious way! Thank you for your words, your work, your scholarship and for highlighting this poignant research of Ms. Shrader’s. I needed to hear this.
Compare The Prayer you have at the bottom of your article,
PRAYER
Lord, you bring us into being
and let our lives touch your heart:
may the fragrance of our worship
draw us closer to your open heart
and free us from our clinging
to the things we can control;
through Jesus Christ, the passion of God.
Amen.
— Steven Shakespeare
And these 5 million children who need the passion of your God. We are the richest nation on the planet and some people call us a, Christian Nation. So these deaths should be preventable.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality ...Jan 10, 2023
I needed to hear this today! I appreciate your work so much. 💗
Amen! To see God's other half reclaimed from patriarchy after thousands of years is so exciting. But doing so cannot diminish God--if God is not all He there's not less of God to be the female side. Thank you Diana, for giving me goosebumps--wonder how the world will rectify the tawdry false portrait of MM as nothing more than a prostitute? So shameful to try to burn a Tower like this Mary to the ground. I may never be anything close to a tower, but now I think I am beginning to see over the heads of some of the men who'd like to block our view as we run out to meet Jesus.
YES! So Be It and So It Is.
I love this and I am entranced by Libbie's story and her work. Thank you!
It is so wonderful that you are sharing LibbyS work
We need informative education and appreciate you very much
Now we say Alleluia, for taking Mary Magdalene out of hiding and giving her agency in our true spiritual journey WITH her! Thank you, AND Libbie Schrader for this blessed scholarship!
...our journey through Holy Week — trust, serve, bless, witness, and proclaim.
It is a path we can all walk.
Our Sunday Adult Study group has been studying John since August. Our studies are most often led by lay leaders. I am one of those leaders. I am just a beginner at doing this. I am an infant in my Bible studies. This is an unusual group of people because all questions are reasonable and no one is supposed to have all the answers. This study has generated wonderful discussion. Yesterday it was my turn and we discussed John 20. Our hour long study flew by with an amazing discussion. I talked about Libbie’s work. Thank you for continuing to highlight Libbie’s work. We did not finish our discussion which is our norm. We will continue next week.
Is this particular letter shareable to non-subscribers? I know the sermon would be of great value to the group.
Thank you for your sermon on Mary Magdalene. Many years ago, a friend of mine had read a book on Mary Magdalene and he strongly recommended I read the book. I appreciate your reflections on her! Many thanks! Have a beautiful Holy Week.
Amen! I honor you for your courage to amplify Schrader’s scholarship , disrupt the status quo, and re-write the narrative! Keep seeking and knocking!
I'm thrilled to dive into all these treasures. I feel the Cottage is what I need to appreciate female scholarship of the accepted cannon of the Bible. That being said I will tell you why this is my last post.
In the 70s and 80s I witnessed the scholarship of nursing geared towards accepting nursing as an independent profession with a unique body of knowledge - not just the doctor's handmaiden and Medicine Mama-holding-your-hand -while-emptying-your-bedpan servant.
So) I appreciate women biblical scholars struggling for legitimacy of unique insight into the accepted cannon.
However, knowing and knowledge are different, yes?
My favorite gnostic gospel is Pistis Sophia where Jesus not only describes preincarnation choosing 12 male and 12 female disciples, I believe he describes how he attained his light body for resurrection return to continue teaching those disciples. I am not sure of this - I am not a scholar - this is my interpretation.
WHY I LIKE IT. Pistis Sophia (Faith Wisdom) is a heavenly being who becomes enchanted with her own light and falls from grace - something I do quite frequently. But she utters 13 repentences narrated by Jesus to which his disciples answer with psalm solutions. Of the 13 disciples who come up with the
solutions, 3 are women. Mary, Martha and Salome. If you study the Gnostic Gospels, there is Mary Magdalene, another Mary, Salome - I do not know if anymore are named -
There are so many editions, descriptions of these gospels - Thomas, Philip, Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Gospel of Truth for my own self the best.
The little handbook edition I have is from the Gnostic Gospels sacred wisdom series by Alan Jacobs, Watkins publishing. Pistis Sophia is the translation by G Mead. I like the handbook because it is text without interpretation or comment.
But the Gnostic Gospels include Peter's jealousy of Mary Magdalene's understanding Jesus better and this is probably why they are not in the cannon. I mean, you have to enter the ground floor before the top, right?
But mostly I study the accepted cannon with the apocrypha. But your scholarship is thrilling to me.
The reason I will not comment furthur on your post is because I'm an "it's all the same truth" as I study all the religions at their mystical core and I can't help but comment from that point and I don't want to disturb the purity of your scholarship of the accepted cannon. I'm just saying - Peter was a little prejudiced and it is my belief that the mystical texts were hidden and survived when science would allow understanding, as mystics and science are tending to converge in understanding creation and the mystical laws - What you sew you reap = action and reaction = karma and reincarnation. We do
not get from ground floor to penthouse in one leap unless a boddhisattva - which - I don't know? Do you feel like you've been here before?
Thank you for your scholarship and I'm thrilled with all your offerings and forgive my silence because I do not want to create arguement -which I tend to do. Fools argue, wise men discuss. However, I
have found my favorite religious movies are Shoes of the Fisherman and Yentyl - and instead of JC superstar yesterday, I watched Yentyl - so in reference to the "toxic" post yesterday and why I reflected on it, Yentyl quotes a rabbi (I forget exactly) A wise man is one who can stretch a narrow mind."
Shalom! Thank you so much for The Cottage -