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Carmen Bernabe, Th.D. (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain) is Professor on the Faculty of Theology of the University of Deusto in Bilbao (e-mail: cbernabe@teol.deusto.es). She is author of MARIA MAGDALENA. SUS TRADICIONES EN EL CRISTIANISMO PRIMITIVO (Estella: Verbo Divino, 1993); Mary Magdalene and the Seven Demons in Social Scientific Perspective, in TRANSFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS. JESUS & WOMEN RE-VIEWED, edited by I. R. Kitzberger (Leiden: Brill, 2000), and Neither Xenoi nor Paroikoi, Sympolitai and Oikeioi tou Theou (Eph 2,19), SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC MODELS FOR INTERPRETING THE BIBLE, edited by J. Pilch (Leiden: Brill 2001).

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