![]() ![]() Mary’s resistance to pressure from John and his companion speaks to the book’s concern about the relationship of men to women and women’s place in society and in the gospels. ![]() “I will not say anything that is not true,” she defiantly insists. They question her about details to use in the history they’re writing, but they get frustrated when her reality doesn’t fit into the vision they’re trying to craft. This puts her at odds with the two gospel writers who visit her in Ephesus (John and perhaps Luke, whose gospel gives us the most detailed description of Mary’s pregnancy and who notes that the events he describes are based on eyewitness accounts *). Tóibín strips away any pre-conceived notions of Mary’s piety and presents a brutally honest woman determined to hold onto her own truth about Jesus’ life and death. ![]() Mary’s account de-mythologizes her son’s story, yet somehow renders it all the more powerful for being completely human. Colm Tóibín’s spare, unsentimental novella The Testament of Mary presents Jesus’ mother’s perspective on the events described in the gospels. ![]()
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