Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Jane Schaberg has died

I was sorry to read, on Kathy Schiffer's blog on Patheos, that Jane Schaberg has died.  Jane Schaberg was Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and is most well known for her controversial but thought-provoking The Illegitimacy of Jesus which recently (2006) celebrated its twentieth anniversary with a new edition.  She has also published extensively on Mary Magdalene, including The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament.  Her passing is a great loss.
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4 comments:

  1. Kate19 April 2012 at 00:04

    Thank you for posting about Dr. Schaberg. She was a professor of mine at University of Detroit Mercy and my first true introduction to feminism. She will be greatly missed.

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  2. Mark Goodacre19 April 2012 at 00:05

    No question. It's very sad news.

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  3. Stephen C. Carlson19 April 2012 at 17:06

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  4. Stephen C. Carlson19 April 2012 at 17:06

    his is very sad news, and I'm glad to have heard her speak at SBL a couple of years ago. Her book is one of the reasons why I'm interested in good historical criticism of the infancy narratives.

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