Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Within a progressive feminist framework, [this book] approaches Christian Testament sources through analysis of legend, archaeology, and Gnostic/apocryphal traditions. [This book] exposes multiple strategies of suppression of the memory of Mary Magdalene. These are traced, from the unfinished excavations of Migdal (Magdala) to the conflation and distortion that produce legends, to the diminishment and erasure in much contemporary scholarship of the women at the cross and tomb. A set of interlocking possibilities about the basileia movement of Jesus and his companions brings these women into new focus."--Dust jacket.

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