Answerer

Hi guys, over the years, I had seen and heard several stories and arguments involving the true identity of Mary Magdalene. Other than the 'standard' labelling of her as a whore, there are three other possibilities of her would-be status:

1) She was the wife and female disciple of Jesus but was hated and feared by the church.

2) She never existed and was a mythical figure as Jesus was.

3) She existed but she is no wife or female disciple of Jesus. (Not a whore either)

So, can any of you please tell me which of the three above cases are the closest to the truth? (There might be a fourth that I don't know)

Vinnie

She was a woman follower of Jesus prominent in the early given the nature of her attestation in John, Mark and Luke. A case can be made that all three attempt to undermine her authiry. If we take opposition as an index to authority Mary Magdalene is up there with the big dogs. Plus Paul and GThomas mention and unknown Mary.

Other than this we know next to nothing about Mary. Things like her marrying Jesus and so forth is sensationalism, not critical scholarship. Some later texts do say Jesus kissed her on the lips often

Amos

She was as mythical as Jesus was, and therefore an effective force in the mind of Joseph the Jew. Jesus became the new identity when Christ was reborn into the mind of Joseph, so really Magdalene was beside Joseph much in the same way Lady Macbeth was beside MacBeth.

She was a disciple of Jesus only because Jesus was the reborn Joseph and therefore Mary M was the maid Joseph had 'married' in the same mythical sense while he was a carpenter and 'made all those things' that carpenters make - which makes Joseph a sinner since all is made in sin. This would make her the wife of Joseph as an Adam who took Eve to be his wife while the Adam nature called Joseph was banned from Eden where he 'made all those things.' Magdalene was Eve, therefore, who was the serpent in the mind of Joseph to motivate Joseph by striking at his heel. Magdalene, in her turn, was motivated by Mary theotokos who stikes at the mind of Magdalene.

The idea that she was a whore is also a metaphor to describe her valor and here she would be Vareria in the mind of Coriolanus who succeeded in life because of the extreme determination of Magdalene to succeed and this, in its turn, was prompted by Mary who is Volumnia in Coriolanus (called Volumnia, which echoes the volume of strikes to motivate Valeria =vivid Eve in the mind of Joseph the enterprising Jew).

Only Joseph existed in real life and the two Mary's and Jesus were personifications used to describe the metaphysics of the renewal of mind. JBap was also a personification of the Christ identity while subordianted to the free will of Jesus the Jew. JBap was therefore "he who went before" to stir the emotion and withdrew afterwards to let 'Jesus the Jew' work out his own salvation.

It is helpful to see the entire Gospels taking place in the mind of one man here called Joseph the Jew who went from rebirth through purgatory and into heaven and the four Gospels are just different perspectives of this event.

Marduk

If she existed, according to the Gospels she was not a prostitute or the woman Jesus saved from being stoned for adultery like many claim, she was the woman who was posed by demons, after Jesus evicted the demons she became a big fan and hung around with da boyz.

trip

What are you talking about? Who is Joseph, and what evidence do we have that the new testament is nothing but some psychotic episode he went through?

Vinnie

Luke may be undermining Mary's authority by saying she was posessed by 7 demons (seven being a special number). Later skeptics picked up on one of "the chief witnesses to the empty tomb" being a former "demoniac"w with such a wicked form of demonic possession.

Those like Crossan think Luke has a little misognist smoothing over and see the Mary Magdalene material as dennigrating and undermining of her authority just as Mark and John undermine it in their own wasy.

And the preicope de adultera was added to the text of John in the fifth century IIRC. Saying this was MAry_M is reaching big time.

Vinnie

Amos

Joseph was a Jew and the Gospels are a tribute to the function of Judaism as a means to the end, which is heaven on earth or paradise regained.

The psychotic episode is also called metamorphosis (if you like that better). The Gospels are a detailed account of this and Catholicism is crammed with evidence for this.

Answerer

I could understand the sex prejudice that had occured in the past. But if Mary was a nobody, why is there so much emphasis on her?

Anyway, I found a website(that supported Mary's wife image) no long ago. Could you please tell me whats wrong with it? Thanks.

Here

Its a shame that Jesus the saviour could not resist her.

Anyway, are you sure that there is no sex involved?

Johann_Kaspar

She was the mother of Yeshua.

quartodeciman

There is a gospel attributed to her (rejected from the New Testament, of course).

The Gospel according to Mary Magdalene -->
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm

Quart