![]() ![]() In fact, as Egan writes, Pope Gregory the Great called Mary Magdalene a whore, a made-up story. But these gospels are not included in the official biblical canon. Mary Magdalene, according to the Gnostic Gospel, was Jesus’ girlfriend, whom he kissed on the lips and who some scholars argue wrote her own book and testament to Jesus, as rich and full as any by Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. It is women who take Jesus down from the cross, and the same women who discover him missing from the tomb, rising as the living God. He argues with the woman at the well at a time when women weren’t considered educated. I particularly appreciated his recognition that Jesus could easily be seen as the first feminist it was the institutional church that feared women. ![]() Luckily Egan has the imagination to evoke the magic he once felt. ![]()
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