Description
María, madre de Jesús, es probablemente la mujer más conocida y a la vez menos comprendida de la historia. Venerada por millones, ha sido el etéreo símbolo de la pureza y la virginidad. Pero qué hay de la María histórica? La joven judía, madre soltera de ocho hijos; la ciudadana desafiante de una Galilea ocupada por Roma, que sobrevivió en uno de los periodos más peligrosos de la historia judía; una época que se cobró la vida de tres de sus hijos: Jesús y Simón, crucificados; y Santiago, lapidado. Hablamos de la María histórica, cuyos ejemplos y enseñanzas podrían convertirla, de hecho, en la fundadora de lo que hoy llamamos cristianismo. Esta María ha sido sistemáticamente borrada a lo largo de dos milenios por un proyecto teológico, cultural y político que buscaba excluirla del ámbito humano y marginarla por su condición de mujer, madre y judía. En María desconocida James D. Tabor deconstruye la historia gracias a más de tres décadas de indagación textual y arqueológica. La búsqueda de la María histórica proporciona una nueva perspectiva de Jesús y sus primeros seguidores, recuperando la esencia del cristianismo original.
Mary, mother of Jesus, is the best known--and least known--woman in history. Revered and worshipped by millions, she remains a figment of the imagination, the ethereal subject of Raphaels and Botticellis, bathed in heavenly light, too virginal and pure to move among us. But what about the real Mary? The young Jewish woman and single mother of eight--five boys and three girls. The defiant citizen of Roman-occupied Galilee who survived through one of the most dangerous periods of Jewish history--an ancient "game of thrones" that claimed the lives of three of her sons: Jesus and Simon by crucifixion, James by stoning. The historical Mary whose teachings and courageous example may in fact make her the "first founder" of what we now call Christianity. This Mary has not only been lost to us--she has been systematically erased over the past two millennia by a theological, cultural, and political program intent on removing her from the human realm and marginalizing her womanhood, motherhood, and Jewishness. In The Lost Mary, James D. Tabor corrects the record, laying out the results of his intensive textual and archaeological sleuthing over the past three decades, including new evidence regarding Mary's genealogy (which may be hiding in plain sight in the New Testament!). Tabor's quest for the historical Mary offers a transformative perspective on Jesus and his early followers, and recovers the nature and essence of earliest Christianity.
Author: James Daniel Tabor
Publisher: Editorial Kairos
Published: 09/30/2026
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9788411214223
ISBN10: 8411214222
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation | New Testament
- Religion | Christian Theology | Mariology
- Religion | Biblical Studies | History & Culture
About the Author
James D. Tabor es profesor emérito de Estudios Religiosos en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Charlotte, donde fue director del departamento durante más de una década. Es autor de diez libros, entre los que destacan La dinastía de Jesús, El descubrimiento de Jesús o Pablo y Jesús. Durante más de treinta años ha combinado el estudio de los textos antiguos con el trabajo de campo arqueológico y, desde 2008, codirige la reconocida excavación del Monte Sión en Jerusalén. Traductora del inglés con muchos años de experiencia.
Dr. James Tabor retired (2022) as a full-Professor from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught Christian origins and ancient Judaism, for 33 years, serving as Chair for a decade. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Tabor's MA/Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago (1981). He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame and the College of William and Mary. Tabor has combined his work on ancient texts with extensive fieldwork in archaeology in Israel and Jordan. Since 2008 he has been co-director, with Shimon Gibson, of the acclaimed Mt. Zion excavation in Jerusalem. He was also involved in the 1993 Waco tragedy drawing upon his expertise in understanding ancient Biblical apocalyptic ideas and he testifying before Congress in the 1995 Waco Hearings. Among Tabor's publications include over 50 published articles as well as nine academic books: Things Unutterable(1985), A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom Among Christians and Jews in Antiquity (Harper Collins:1992 with Arthur Droge) Why Waco: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (UC Berkeley:1995 with Eugene Gallagher), The Jesus Dynasty (Simon & Schuster, 2006), The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find that Reveals the Birth of Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2012 with Simcha Jacobovici), Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2012), The Book of Genesis: A New Translation from the Transparent English Bible (Genesis Press, 2020), Paul's Ascent to Paradise: The Apostolic Message and Mission of Paul in the Light of His Mystical Experiences (Genesis Press, 2020). Dr. Tabor has just completed a new book, The Lost Mary: From the Jewish Mother of Jesus to the Virgin Mother of God which is out in French (Marie: De son enfance juive à la fondation du christianisme Flammarion, 2020) and forthcoming in English (Knopf, Sept 2025).