Passage ID MMW 13

"Gospel of Mary"

"Levi said to Peter, 'Peter, you have a constant inclination to anger and you are always ready to give way to it. And even now you are doing exactly that by questioning the woman as if you're her adversary. If the Savior considered her to be worthy, who are you to disregard her? For he knew her completely [and] loved her devotedly"

"Levi said to Peter, 'Peter, you have a constant inclination to anger and you are always ready to give way to it. And even now you are doing exactly that by questioning the woman as if you're her adversary. If the Savior considered her to be worthy, who are you to disregard her? For he knew her completely [and] loved her devotedly"

Levi: believes Mary saw Jesus being risen

"Gospel of Mary"

Peter: does not believe that Mary saw Jesus being risen, portrayed to have similar views to orthodoxy and portrayed negatively

"Gospel of Mary"

Worthy: Contrast to patriarchal norms in later/orthodox Christianity: Peter and other disciples refuse to accept Mary's leadership, accept that Jesus favored her over other male disciples

"Gospel of Mary"

Questioning the woman: women in early christianity played a large role and many held leadership positions --> anti-patriarchial

"Gospel of Mary"

he knew her completely: implied a sexual relationship between Mary and Jesus, perhaps she was his wife and also emphasizes her ties to Jesus

Hadith

"Allah—mighty and majestic is He—led astray from Friday those who came before us, so that the Jews have Saturday and the Christians Sunday; then Allah brought us along and guided us to Friday. [The order of days as] He has appointed them is Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so on the Last Day [when people are called in their communities] they will be following after us. Thus in this world we are the last people [to be formed into a religious community] but on the Day we shall be the first, those who receive their judgment before [other] creatures."

Hadith

Christians and Jews: part of Dhimmis (people of the book who have day of prayer on Sunday and Saturday

Hadith

Last Day: the day God will judge all the Dhimmis, when end of the world occurs and all creatures are called before God and go into the afterlife

Hadith

last people: Islam is the most recent Abrahamic tradition, they consolidate the Jewish and Christian prophets and have idea of Muhammed as the "seal of prophets" --> the final messiah

Hadith

Friday: islamic day of congregation and worship

"Gospel of Mary"

Gnostic Gospel

Sura of the Quran

"When the angels said, 'Mary, God gives thee good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary; high honoured shall he be in the world and the next, near stationed to God. He shall speak to men in the cradle, and of age, and righteous he shall be."

Sura of the Quran

Jesus and Mary: acknowledges the existence of Jewish and Christian figures

Sura of the Quran

High-honoured: shows respect for prior figures

Sura of the Quran

a way of improving upon and continuing these earlier religions, not replacing or undoing them

- seal of the prophets and correcting those who went astray

Sura of the Quran

near stationed to God: shows respect for prior figures

"Arming himself with discipline,/seeing everything with an equal eye,/he sees the self in all creatures/and all creatures in the self. He who sees me everywhere/and sees everything in me/will not be lost to me,/and I will not be lost to him."

Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita

discipline: to act without attachment to results, do what is necessary but not obsess over the "fruits" of their action

Bhagavad Gita

equal eye: see all as manifestation of Brahman (universal soul), understand that we are all of same source/soul/essence

- Do this through sublimation to god: full devotion to a god

- Hindu gods are manifestations of the universe, so devotion to god = way to achieve discipline, transcend the self, and achieve inward cultivation

Bhagavad Gita

describes the traits one must have in order to achieve moksha, or release from cycle of rebirth

"Your own duty done imperfectly/ is better than another man's done well./ It is better to die in one's own duty;/ another man's duty is perilous."

Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita

duty: dharma, one's sacred purpose in life

Bhagavad Gita

die in one's own duty: emphasizes sacredness of duty, caste, and social role by showing strictness

Bhagavad Gita

perilous: shows danger of not completing your dharma (not achieving moksha)

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

"As for the spoils of war, much of it was displayed in no particular order, but the most conspicuous of all was what was taken from inside the Temple of Jerusalem—a golden table many talents in weight, a lamp stand [the Menorah] likewise made of gold. In the middle it had a column fixed to the base with slender shafts stretching up from it, similar in shape to a trident, with an oil lamp wielded to the end of each. There were seven of them, showing the importance the Jews attach to the number seven. Last among the spoils of war came the [tablets of] the Law of the Jews. After that came many carrying the statue of Victory, all made of gold and ivory. After these drove Vespasian with Titus following him

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

Flavius Josephus: a Jew who recorded history of his people and events of Judeae during the time of Jesus' crucifixion

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

spoils of war: what was paraded around after the triumph of the romans

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

Vespasian: former roman emporer, Romans destroyed the 2nd Temple of Jerusalem in reaction to a rebellion → viewed by Jews as one of the darkest times of their history

- When religion faces crisis, invites finger-pointing: different Jewish groups were blaming one another

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

Temple of Jerusalem: second temple of jerusalem that was raided and ransacked

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

the Menorah, [tablets of] the Law, statue of Victory: all valuable things from the temple and to the Jewish religion

Flavius Josephus "The Jewish War"

Titus: son of vespasian, aided in raiding

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

"Now dawned the day of their victory, and they went forth from the prison into the amphitheater as it were into heaven, cheerful and bright of countenance; if they trembled at all, it was for joy, not for fear. Perpetua followed behind, glorious of presence, as a true spouse of Christ and

darling of God; at whose piercing look all cast down their eyes. Felicity likewise, rejoicing that she had borne a child in safety, that she might fight with the beasts, came now from blood to blood, from the midwife to the gladiator, to wash after her travail in a second baptism."

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

Partially by Perpetua (autobiographical)

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

amphitheater: where perpetua and felicity's execution will take place, where people will watch them be made an example of

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

for joy, not for fear: they are not afraid of the afterlife as they believe christ to be their savior and that htey will fo to heavan, happy to be martyred

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

a true spouse of Christ: shows Perpetua's dedication to christ as her savior as if he is her husband

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

borne a child in safety: felicity was pregnant but gave birth and can now die in martyrdom (as they would not subject a pregnant woman to execution)

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

midwife to the gladiator: maternal death rates were high and so was felicitie's chances of dying by the hands of a gladiator, both trials emphasize Felicitiy's strength

"The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity"

a second baptism: they will be reborn again after being martyred