Blood and Silk: The Hidden Love Story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth - Hardcover

McKay, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770672710 ISBN 13: 9781770672710

Verlag: FriesenPress, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

FASCINATING NOVEL EXPLORES JESUS AND MARY'S CONTROVERSIAL BOND THROUGH THE LENSES OF CULTURAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS.

Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth's mysterious, legendary connection can only be realized by revisiting their story through its Greco-Roman, Mediterranean cultural context. Early theologians censored details about theater, literature, dress, cuisine, wedding rituals, glass manufacturing, silk trade, politics and architecture of Mary Magdalene's time when they did not fit dogma and doctrine. Cultural Historian Carol Aldenhoven McKay retrieves these lost frameworks as the story line follows McKay's meticulous reconstruction of a formerly forgotten way of life. Blood and Silk: The Hidden Love Story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth is a novel fifteen years in the making....

Biografía del autor:

Carol Aldenhoven McKay, Cultural Historian and Artist, received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, in 1993. Carol McKay conceived and managed numerous National Endowment of Arts and National Endowment of Humanities funded public programs. Her focus is the relationship of culture to social and political issues. Carol volunteered for many years teaching Fine Arts to at-risk youth and is a multi-award winner, for among others, a 1980 prime time TV documentary on the roots and causes of violence. Blood and Silk, her debut novel won the top Indie Award for Religious Fiction in 2011 and was the 2011 Indie First Runner Up for Cover Design....

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• Verlag: FriesenPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1770672710
• ISBN 13: 9781770672710
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378