Forget The DaVinci Code — by now the uproar over the book and movie is old news. Mary Magdalene, who is at the heart of the story, is not. The mystique of the biblical character continues — in ...

I n a shocking twist to historical accounts, a contentious source has claims that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, often portrayed as a prostitute, and fathered two children. This revelation ...

Sasha Cooke as Mary Magdalene soothes Nathan Gunn as Yeshua (Jesus) in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.

The Gospel of Mary In this gnostic gospel, Mary Magdalene appears as a disciple, singled out by Jesus for special teachings. In this excerpt, the other disciples are discouraged and grieving Jesus ...

In a 2021 study I co-authored with professor Joan Taylor, we also demonstrated that the word "Magdalene" does not necessarily reference Mary's hometown; it could just as well be an honorific title ...

Schrader argues that the Mary of the original text is Mary Magdalene, not Martha or Martha’s sister, Mary. The two sisters belong to another story, in the Gospel of Luke, that is not repeated in ...

“2nd-Temple-period synagogue found where Gospel’s Mary Magdalene was born,” the Jerusalem Post’s Dec. 12 headline declared. Newsweek, Express UK and the Smithsonian magazine followed up ...