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Mary (Sister of Martha)

John 11:2, John 12:3 

  • John 11:2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • “Mary and Martha: Celebrating the Gifts of Others” by Janet Galante and Molly Kate Hance

  • "Mary and Martha" by Mary Ann Beavis

  • "Sermon On Mary And Martha" by Nadia Bolz Weber

  • "Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany" by Marg Mowczko

  • “Mary of Bethany” Season 7, Episode 3 of The Bible Binge (October 27, 2019)

  • “Mary and Martha” Season 2, Episode 6 of The Bible Binge (July 15, 2018)

Books

  • Ch. 5, “Mary of Bethany: A Vulnerable Leader Choosing Intimacy” (pp.73-83) by Kristy Garza Robinson in Hermanas: Growing Our Identity and Deepending Our Influence (2019)

  • "Mary and Martha of Bethany" (Ch.4) in Women in the Life of the Bridegroom by Adeline Fehribach (1998)

  • "Gospel of Luke" by Jane D. Schaberg and Sharon H. RInge in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

To correctly use the search bar, follow these guidelines:

  • Use proper capitalization (for example, capitalize “N” in “Naomi” instead of writing “naomi”)

  • Use proper spacing (“Mary of Bethany” as opposed to “MaryofBethany”)

  • Write out the full name of the woman you’re searching for, if you know it (for example, “The Samaritan Woman”). If writing out the full name does not work, simply type in “Samaritan” and see if “The Samaritan Woman” appears.

  • If the search bar is still not yielding your results, it might be because we have altered the woman’s name based on scholarship we found (for example, we have Naomi listed as “Naomi/Mara”). You can always find a specific woman by going to the navigation bar, clicking Old Testament or New Testament, and scrolling down to her appropriate genre and book.

  • To find a woman manually, note that the women listed on this site are listed in the order they appear in scripture (for example, women in Genesis chapter 1 are listed before women in Genesis chapter 2).

This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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