1. Background and Perspective on Mary
Why the Mother of Jesus?
Mary, a Jew
Mary Remembered in the Extracanonical Gospels
Methodology
The Power of Bio-Power
Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
2. More Collyridian Deja vu
The Old Rule of Thumb: lectio brevior potior
Redaction Analysis of Mary's Religious Authority
A Scene of Mary Exorcising Demons
Women Using Censers and Incense
Kernels of Historicity: Women Using Censers Liturgically
Redaction Analysis of the Markers of Women's Authority
3. Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle-The Apostle Mariamne in the Acts of Philip
Sexual Slander as Evidence of Women in the Clergy
Irene, Apostle of Jesus
The Long Narrative about Irene's Life
Male Re-Baptizers and the Apostle Nino
Irene Baptizes and Seals
The Apostle Thecla Baptizes and Seals
Dating Controversy: When Was the Life of Thecla Composed?
The Thecla Tertullian Knew
Cultural Context
4. Mary, High Priest and Bishop
Jesus's Mother Versus 1 Timothy
Mary in Art: High Priest and Bishop
Mary with the Episcopal Pallium
Mary with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant
Women with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant
5. Mother and Son, Paired
Mother and Son Paired on Objects Used in the Liturgy
Dividing the Mother-Son Dyad: The Maria Maggiore Mosaics
The Mother-Son Dyad in Art Prior to the Council of Ephesus
Mother and Son Paired in Third- and Fourth-Century Funereal Art
6. The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents
The Oldest Text of the Life of the Virgin
The Annunciation to Mary in the Temple
Mary at the Baptism of Her Son
The Women at the Lord's Supper
Partaking at the Temple Altar in the Gospel of Bartholomew
Gender Parallelism in the Liturgy in the Didascalia apostolorum
The Ritual of Body and Blood according to the Apostolic Church Order
7. Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception
Female and Male Co-Officiants from the Second Century Onwards
Writings that Paired Male and Female Clerical Titles
Women Overseers or Bishops
Cerula and Bitalia, Ordained Bishops
Historicity of Pulcheria inside the Holy of Holies of the Second Hagia Sophia
Female and Male Clergy at the Altar in Old Saint Peter's Basilica
The Ciborium in Old Saint Peter's Basilica
The Altar in Old Saint Peter's Basilica
Possible Identification of the Male and Female Officiants at the Altar Table
Theodora and Justinian in San Vitale: Modeling Mary and Jesus at the Last Supper
Third-Century Evidence of Gender Parity at the Offering Table
8. Modes of Silencing
Modes of Silencing the Past
Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
