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Article: 'Tis pity she's a whore: the revision of Mary Magdalene in contemporary fiction.
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- Papers on Language & Literature
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Though the information the Bible presents concerning Mary Magdalene is thin, she has long fascinated artists and religious leaders. In her review of research on Mary Magdalene since 1975, Pamela Thimmes writes,
Apart from the other Mary, Mary the mother of Jesus, no other woman character in the Christian Scriptures has received as much attention. What makes this interest so extraordinary is that Mary Magdalene is a character found in all of the canonical gospels, but nowhere else in the New Testament. However, she is a character in 11 gnostic/apocryphal works, where sometimes she is a major character. (193)
Galen Knutson adds, "However, if a count is made ...