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Sir Taliesin · 10-03-2003, 04:32 PM

Mary Magdalene has gotten a bum rap over the centuries. She is often protrayed as a fallen woman (read prostitute), but many biblical scholars believe today, that wasn't the case at all. I've heard it said that she was actually an older woman of some influence and that she was one of Jesus's closest confidents. However the early church, chose to protray her as a prostitute, so as to not give any excuses for women to question the church's authority.

Gnostic Teaching goes even further in proclaiming Mary Magdalene as the actual writer of the Fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John in the New Testement. And to take it a step further manu Gnostic writings refer to her as the Most Beloved of Jesus's Disciples.

Whatever the case she was a top leader in the early church before her death in about 90AD.

But to answer your original question, it sure looks like a woman setting next to Jesus in the Last Supper painting!

[ 10-03-2003, 04:33 PM: Message edited by: Sir Taliesin ]

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Sir Taliesin Silver Dragon Join Date: March 4, 2001 Location: Knoxville, TN USA Age: 62 Posts: 1,641	Mary Magdalene has gotten a bum rap over the centuries. She is often protrayed as a fallen woman (read prostitute), but many biblical scholars believe today, that wasn't the case at all. I've heard it said that she was actually an older woman of some influence and that she was one of Jesus's closest confidents. However the early church, chose to protray her as a prostitute, so as to not give any excuses for women to question the church's authority. Gnostic Teaching goes even further in proclaiming Mary Magdalene as the actual writer of the Fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John in the New Testement. And to take it a step further manu Gnostic writings refer to her as the Most Beloved of Jesus's Disciples. Whatever the case she was a top leader in the early church before her death in about 90AD. But to answer your original question, it sure looks like a woman setting next to Jesus in the Last Supper painting! [ 10-03-2003, 04:33 PM: Message edited by: Sir Taliesin ] __________________ Sir Taliesin<br /><br />Hello... Good bye.