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title: "Mary As the Early Christians Knew Her: The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts"
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# Mary As the Early Christians Knew Her: The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts

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- **What is this?** Mary As the Early Christians Knew Her: The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts by frederica mathewes-green
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## Customer Reviews

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*by H***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2023*

Good read.

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    When I finished I was ready to read it again
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2023*

I love this book. So helpful if you want to understand Mary in an historical context. It gave me a deep appreciation for her…actually as I’m writing I realize it’s a deep love for her. Such beauty and depth in who she was. I’m grateful for Frederica’s books!

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    Well-written, researched and rational Marian treatment.
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2013*

Mathewes-Green writes from an Orthodox Christian perspective with admirable flair and considerable insight that helps readers grasp the humanity and impetus behind her subject matter. Her tones are hardly lofty or antiseptic in a scholarly way, but her remarks are probation and revealing. Here she offers glimpses and personal translations of three of the most ancient Marian texts in Christian history: the Protevangelium (c. 140 CE), the Sub Tuum prayer to Mary (c. 250 CE) and The Akathist hymn by "Romanos" (properly dated to the 6th Century). People interest in detailed footnotes and scholarly debates should look to more forensic treatments of these three ancient Christian texts. Here, FM-G seeks to explore the socio-cultural and spiritual purposes and traditions that may (or may not) have motivated the communities that produced such texts and she ponders the more obvious ramifications and issues, comparing them (where relevant) to contemporary understandings and questions regarding ancient Marian traditions. She does this thoughtfully and with clear language and admirable consideration. This is a fine addition to any library of books dealing with the most ancient periods of Christian theological history and pious practice, especially when considering that both the Protoevangelium and the Sub Tuum prayer were in use long before Constantine, the advent of the Nicene Fathers, and even before the "Bible" itself was compiled with any wide-reaching canonical authority ... to say nothing of the fact that Bibles (as we know them today) did not even exist in Christianity for many more centuries to come.

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