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    Sep 10, 2020 4 minutes

    Mary Magdalene Revealed

    The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet

    Meggan Watterson

    Hay House, 2019

    HB, £19.99, 264pp. ISBN 9781401954901

    Since the discovery in 1945 in Egypt of a library of early Christian Coptic texts – often referred to as the ‘Gnostic Gospels’ – one of the most interesting and controversial texts to have emerged (and the only one attributed to a woman) has been that titled the ‘Gospel of Mary Magdalene’. Instead of the peripheral figure with a rumoured seedy past, as she is conventionally presented in both the historical canon and modern orthodox commentaries, this Gospel shows her to be Jesus’s closest

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