Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction Amy-Jill Levine; Human and Divine: The Marys in Early Christian Tradition Valerie; Abrahamsen, Boston, MA, USA; The Mandaean Appropriation of Jesus' Mother, Miriai Jorunn; Jacobsen Buckley, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA; Virgin Mother or Bastard Child? John Dominic Crossan, DePaul; University (emeritus), Chicago, IL, USA; Virginity as Purity in the Protevangelium of James Mary F. Foskett, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 'All Generations Will Call Me Blessed': Mary in Biblical and Ecumenical Perspective Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Princeton; Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, USA; What Does It Mean to Call Mary Miriam? Dierdre Good, General; Theological Seminary, New York, NY, USA; 'The Historical Mary' and Dea Creatrix: A Historical-Critical; Contribution to Feminist Theological Reflection Jorunn Okland, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Feminist Interpretations of the Infancy Narrative of Matthew Jane; Schaberg, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA; The Genesis of Mariology George H. Tavard,, Methodist Seminary (emeritus), Columbus, OH, USA; Miriam of Nazareth: Between Symbol and History John van den Hengel, University of Saint Paul, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Sex, Birth, Purity and Asceticism in the Protevangelium Jacobi Pieter; W. Van Der Horst, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Christmas with Salome George T. Zervos, University of North; Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors