\ifdefiningfootnotes

\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnMariam}{MARIAM: This is the name for the mother of Iesous used in Luke's gospel. 
Luke consistently gives the mother of IESOUS as MARIAM 
throughout the infancy narrative — the angel addresses her by this name (1:30), and she 
speaks of herself by it (1:34, 1:38) — the same form the Septuagint uses for Miriam, sister 
of Moses and Aaron, prophetess and singer of Israel's victory song at the Sea (Exodus 15:20-21). 
Some scholars argue that song, though attributed to Moses in the text's final form, was 
originally hers. A Greek-literate Jewish reader hearing MARIAM in Luke's narrative would 
have this figure in view: deliverer's sister, prophetess, singer of deliverance. The 
Magnificat (1:46-55) reads as her direct heir — a new MARIAM singing a new song at a new 
deliverance.
\fnPar{}
The name's own meaning is disputed even in antiquity: most often derived from a Hebrew root 
associated with bitterness or rebellion, reflecting the bitterness of the Egyptian bondage, 
though some ancient sources proposed an alternate root meaning "beautiful."
\fnPar{}
See `MARIA.
}
\fi
