>Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:12:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Juergen Hahn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Maria Magdalena?
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>Alicia, I have pondered your Maria Magdalena idea with
>great interest, because you make an effort to stay
>close to the text.
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>You suggest that the difference beween Zoraida's  use
>of "Maria" and "Lela Marien" points to different
>identities. I am not sure that is enough proof. And
>since I so much believe in proof, let me say why:
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>I see "Lela Marien" as the Koranic name of "the"
>Maria, the one that Zoraida would have been intimately
>familiar with since childhood. When she is on Spanish
>soil she calls herself "Maria," because it is the
>Western, Christian version, the one that symbolizes
>her asprired conversion. I realize she still thinks
>mostly in Arabic when she says "macange", but being a
>bright woman, and having spent time with her novio,
>she must have realized that calling herself "Marien"
>would have sounded severely out of place here.
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>I have always been impressed that even today at least
>half the women in Spain seem to have the name "Maria"
>attached to their name, as a good-luck charm by doting
>parents, I am sure, who want to give their child the
>best send-off possible for their life. Unless I am
>mistaken, all of these are meant to refer to "the"
>Maria. If one wants to have maximum connection to God,
>she is the one to invoke, not Magdalena, it seems to
>me.
>
>Perhaps we could try a simple empirical test: We could
>ask all the members of the audience whose name is
>Maria, which Maria they feel most associated with.
>
>Juergen Hahn
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