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Stood Weeping Outside the Tomb
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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.
Title: Stood Weeping Outside the Tomb
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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.
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