6/25/2023 0 Comments The testament of mary toibin![]() ![]() Toibn's tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed. This woman who we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. By placing Mary in the centre of the narrative. ![]() Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died - she fled, to save herself), and is equally harsh on her judgement of others. The Testament of Mary (2012), forcefully critique s the process through which the Gospels were compiled by interrogating their patriarchal origin. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was "worth it " nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. Indeed, I only read it because it was on the Man. I have generally not enjoyed Tibn's work and this was no exception. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel - her keepers, who provide her with food and shelter and visit her regularly. The latest addition to my website is Colm Tibn's The Testament of Mary. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion.
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