Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess
by Lynn Picknett
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Tradition and history have made of her "the other Mary." Even in the New Testament Mary Magdalene stands among women second only to Mary the Mother, albeit she has been reduced by the biblical Gospels to little more than a fallen woman redeemed by Jesus. In the Gnostic Gospels, however, Magdalene figures almost as significantly as Christ, who names her "the woman who knows all." The conflicting accounts of Mary Magdalene have sent best-selling author Lynn Picknett on a quest for the truth show more that has led her to the thirteenth-century cult of the Black Madonna, then back to Christianity's beginnings and earlier. Tracing Mary's name to Magdala in Egypt, Picknett learns that the term Magdal-eder means "tower of the flock," or Good Shepherd, a title also given to Jesus Christ. Based on her explorations into new scholarship on recently discovered Gnostic texts, Picknett finds a vital partnership between Jesus and Mary that synthesized Eastern and Egyptian mysticism and that promulgated gender equality, anointing rites, and sexual rituals. In that relationship, she discovers an alliance that Christ's Apostles and, later, the Catholic Church strove ardently to suppress. Picknett's revelations rarely fail to provoke at least a reconsideration of long-accepted church doctrine. show lessTags
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Lynn Picknett is an experienced writer and journalist, and editor of the weekly publication The Royal Family Clive Prince is a full-time writer, researcher and lecturer specialising in historical mysteries Stephen Prior is a historian who specialises in Intelligence Robert Brydon is a military historian who has written many film treatments and show more scripts for historical documentaries show less
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- Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess
- People/Characters
- Mary Magdalene; Jesus Christ
- Dedication
- To all who have suffered at the hands of the Church
- First words
- Inconceivable though it is now, for the average north country working-class family in late 1950s England, no Sunday would have been complete without attending at least one church service, posaibly two, if the family budget st... (show all)retched to a double donation for the collection box.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)After years of making God in our own image, perhaps it is appropriate to allow him/her to return the favour, but this time from the inside out.
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