The Lost Mary by James D. Tabor HARDBACK 9781101947845

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nIn this provocative reappraisal of the most famous woman who ever lived, a world-renowned historian of early Christianity and ancient Judaism lifts the veil on the human Mary to reveal her revolutionary role as the matriarch of the Jesus movement\n\nMary, mother of Jesus, is the best known?and least known?woman in history. Revered and worshipped by countless 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.\n\nBut 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 c.