>Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:12:25 -0700 (PDT) >From: Juergen Hahn <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Maria Magdalena? >To: [log in to unmask] >Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys >DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; > >b=Vhe/8g1KzjQSKGEtTSH5TficUDdoBsfwLnHxEemv2PaXw++Y6TWDs2iIoY5I6AGnUkWNPbGqP >F7N9jICpWlxWVC6PlyjejZJ0etBwq2lmgC8DFf523DrwmCTmFZAIxaojvzEA0oHvKLd9VmC62kk >Pgbxr7XQ/pSvyYl7810LnbI= ; >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >Alicia, I have pondered your Maria Magdalena idea with >great interest, because you make an effort to stay >close to the text. > >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: > >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. > >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 > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com