A bombshell manuscript said to be nearly 1,500 years old has sparked fresh debate by suggesting Jesus Christ was wed to Mary Magdalene and the pair had children. Dubbed the "Lost Gospel", the ...

A 'Lost Gospel' that is 1,500 years old has claimed that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had two children with her, according to its translators irishmirror Load mobile navigation News ...

Several fragments of a document named the Gospel of Mary have been found. The Berlin Gnostic Codex contains the largest known portions of the Gospel, found in Akhmim, upper Egypt, in the late 1800s.

Consider, she suggested, the Gospel of Philip—a third-century text discovered with similar documents near Nag Hammadi, in Egypt, in 1945—in which Magdalene is described as the woman “who ...

The growing interest in considering Mary Magdalene’s identity and significance should lead us to look again at the biblical text. She may not appear on every page in the Gospel accounts, but in ...

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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 ...

Mary Magdalene’s significance is also buried in quite a literal way; in 1896, a text that has since become known as the Gospel of Mary was discovered in Egypt, beneath the surface of desert ...

Not only is Mary Magdalene an important woman in the Bible, but she is also a saint, and probably the most misunderstood Biblical figure in history. For centuries, Mary Magdalene's name has been ...