Feminist scholars began writing about Mary Magdalene in the 1990s, more than a century after the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) was discovered in a Cairo marketplace.

"The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," the densely rhapsodic new opera by composer and librettist Mark Adamo that had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, burns with the ...

A controversial 1,500-year-old manuscript that is said to have been unearthed in the British Library claims Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had two children ...

A controversial manuscript has claimed that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had two children. The 1,500-year-old book was found in the British Library and has been dubbed the "Lost Gospel" ...

JESUS had a closer relationship with Mary Magdalene than previously thought, with the pair sharing "intimate" moments, according to a vast collection of lost ancient Gospel stories.

Did Jesus have a wife and two kids? That is the striking -- to some, blasphemous -- claim at the heart of the new book “The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text That Reveals Jesus’ Marriage ...

The result, which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, is "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," a radical retelling of the biblical story of Jesus.

Mary Magdalene (Sasha Cooke), right, anoints Yeshua (Nathan Gunn) with oil, in a scene from San Francisco Opera's world premiere of Mark Adamo's "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," Sunday, June 16 ...

(RNS) — The two scholars suggest Magdalene may well be an honorific from the Hebrew and Aramaic words meaning ‘tower’ or ‘magnify.’ ...

Of the various followers gathered around Jesus in the Gospels, perhaps none is so evocative and yet mysterious as Mary Magdalene. Her presence in the Gospel narrative, particularly surrounding ...