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The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus
By (author) James D. Tabor
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A world-renowned historian of early Christianity and ancient Judaism lifts the veil on the life of Mary—revealing her revolutionary role as the matriarch of the Jesus movement “Tabor restores her voice, her faith, her motherhood, and, most of all, her humanity, in this groundbreaking portrait that challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of Christianity.†—Reza Aslan, author of Zealot Mary, mother of Jesus, is the best known—and least known—woman in history. Revered and worshipped by millions, she remains a figment of the imagination, the ethereal subject of Raphaels and Botticellis, bathed in heavenly light, too virginal and pure to move among us. But what about the real Mary? The young Jewish woman and single mother of eight—five boys and three girls. The defiant citizen of Roman-occupied Galilee who survived through one of the most dangerous periods of Jewish history—an ancient “game of thrones†that claimed the lives of three of her sons: Jesus and Simon by crucifixion, James by stoning. The historical Mary whose teachings and courageous example may in fact make her the “first founder†of what we now call Christianity. This Mary has not only been lost to us—she has been systematically erased over the past two millennia by a theological, cultural, and political programme intent on removing her from the human realm and marginalising her womanhood, motherhood, and Jewishness. In The Lost Mary, James D. Tabor corrects the record, laying out the results of his intensive textual and archaeological sleuthing over the past three decades, including new evidence regarding Mary’s genealogy (which may be hiding in plain sight in the New Testament!). Tabor’s quest for the historical Mary offers a transformative perspective on Jesus and his early followers, and recovers the nature and essence of earliest Christianity.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 4 Dec 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 240 x 159 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 270g
ISBN | 978-0-0088-1209-6
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BISAC | history / ancient / general
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