The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution - The American Scholar

The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution - The American Scholar

The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus by James D. Tabor; Knopf, 240 pp., $29 While traveling in Italy earlier this year, I saw hundreds of paintings of the Annunciation, Pietà, and Madonna and Child. I wondered how many of the museum and church visitors around me were aware that they were marveling at, even worshipping, a worried Jewish mother. That’s who Mary really was, but most people don’t think of her that way. Religious studies …