The Last Supper According to Martha and Mary by Beattie Tina

The Last Supper According to Martha and Mary by Beattie Tina

Theologian and novelist Tina Beattie fictionalises the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper from the perspectives of the women who were there. What was it like to be part of that anarchic group of friends gathered in Jerusalem as tensions mounted and fear crept through their Passover celebrations?

.. powerful, moving, original and well-written. ... This is a lovely book. ... It is both bold and beautiful ... theology and poetry and humanity met together.' (Sara Maitland); ... depicts two very real people and their own struggle in faith. The story explores the hope that living in the presence of Jesus brings, the real and tangible fear that gripped all who were in his company at the advent of the passion. The witness of the two women creates for the reader a very different picture of the night in question. (The Furrow)

Tina Beattie spent much of her early life in Africa. She was born and grew up in Lusaka, Zambia, and also lived in Kenya and Zimbabwe before moving to Bristol with her husband and four young children in 1988. She has been described as one of the most brilliant and original Catholic theologians in Britain (Ashley Beck, The Pastoral Review), though she was a latecomer to academic life. She left school at 15 and finally began her undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol in 1991, the year her youngest child started school. Tina has given public lectures around the world and her academic publications include monographs published by Routledge, Oxford University Press and Continuum, as well as numerous journal articles and contributions to books. She is a well-known public commentator and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Tina's first creative passion has always been writing fiction, and in recent years she has returned to that enduring love. One reviewer described her novel The Good Priest (2019) as an absolute masterpiece and wrote that he would place this book in the top three fiction books I have read. (GoodReads) Another wrote, This is one of the most enthralling books that I have read this year. ... I was utterly absorbed from beginning to end. (Breakaway Reviewers) In 2021 Tina left her full-time post as Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton in London to dedicate her time to research and writing. Her second novel, Between Two Rivers (publication date February 2022) explores life in Rhodesia from the last years of colonialism in the 1950s to the trauma of civil war in the 1970s. Zimbabwean writer and war correspondent Angus Shaw describes it as a compelling and captivating read. ... There is passion, love and violence ... I loved it despite scenes that deeply disturbed me, having been through those times. Tina now lives near Rye on the south coast of England, where she swims in the sea and draws inspiration from the wild beauty of the dunes.

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ISBN 13	9781739974404
ISBN 10	1739974409
Title	The Last Supper According to Martha and Mary
Author	Beattie Tina
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Christabel Press
Year published	2021-10-20
Number of pages	156
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