Models of Authority and Debate in the Gospel of Mary

This book takes a narrative-critical approach to the meaning and function of debate in the Gospel of Mary . The debate scene in the Gospel of Mary has been interpreted with the assumed framework of the Gnostic-orthodox conflict and feminist biblical studies’ particular interest in the gender issue. When approached narrative-critically, the portrayal of the debate is fundamentally concerned with the narrative’s rhetoric of persuasion. The function of the debate scene is meant to make truth-authori