and cover design by Georgia Dent
Cover art used with permission: Mary Magdalen in a Grotto, LeFevre, Jules Joseph, c. 1876. Oil on Canvas. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
The poems Poem for May 15, Egyptian prayer to Isis, and Poem for November 12, Egyptian coffin texts, have been reprinted with kind permission from the publisher from The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit by Patrician Monaghan © 1999. Llewellyn Worldwide, 2143 Wooddale Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125-2989. All rights reserved.
First paperback edition of The Passion of Mary Magdalen: A Novel by Elizabeth Cunningham
ISBN: 978-0-9833589-6-1
First hardcover edition of The Passion of Mary Magdalen: A Novel by Elizabeth Cunningham
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cunningham, Elizabeth, 1953-
The passion of Mary Magdalen : a novel / Elizabeth Cunningham.
p. cm. -- (The Maeve chronicles ; 1)
1. Mary Magdalene, Saint--Fiction. 2. Bible. N.T. Gospels--History of Biblical events--Fiction. 3. Christian women saints--Fiction. 4. Women in the Bible--Fiction. 5. Jesus Christ--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.U473P37 2006
813'.54--dc22
2005027344
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In loving memory of my father, Raymond Cunningham
CONTENTS
CHAPTER THREE: A NIGHT IN THE LIFE
CHAPTER FIVE: THE GODDESS FINDS ME
CHAPTER SIX: THE FIRE FINDS ME
CHAPTER SEVEN: ENCOUNTER WITH THE ENEMY
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE LOST THREAD
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE LONGEST NIGHT
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: TAKE ME THERE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: WHORES AND ADULTERERS
CHAPTER NINETEEN: TEMPUS FUGIT
CHAPTER TWENTY: DIANA’S COUNTRY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: OPEN-EYED DREAMS
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: PRIESTESS TO PRIESTESS
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: NOT FOR SALE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: TO SING OR RETURN TO SILENCE
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: WHO WE ARE
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: BACK INTO THE MAW
