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Article: The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents

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ANTTI MARJANEN, The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents (NHS and Manichaean Studies 40; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1996). Pp. xii + 261. Nlg 136, $87.75.

Do not be misled by the tabloid-style title of this book. The subtitle states the author's serious intent: to produce a careful study of the role of Mary Magdalene in second- and third-century Gnostic and Manichaean writings. Antti Marjanen examines each text separately, taking as much care as possible to distinguish the fictional narrative from the historical situation of the early Church.

There has been considerable interest in Mary Magdalene since the early patristic period, when the ...

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