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It's
Just a Novel (Movie)
1. Story of The Da Vinci
Code: Murder Mystery
2. Story of The Da
Vinci Code: Historical Secret
3. Leonardo’s Last
Supper
4. Derivation of
'Holy Grail'
5. Mary Magdalene in
the Bible
6. Priory of Sion
6a. Opus Dei
7. Questions of
Jesus’s True Identity
8. Non-Christian
Sources
9. Christian Sources:
Biblical Texts
10. Other Apostolic
Texts
11. St.
Ignatius of Antioch – AD 110
12. "Alternate"
Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)
13. St. Justin,
Martyr – AD 151
14. St. Irenaeus of
Lyon – AD189
15. "Alternate"
Christianities
16. Gnostic
Scriptures
17. The
‘Muratorian’ Canon – c. AD 200
18. Constantine
19. Council of
Nicaea - AD 325
20. St. Eusebius,
Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330)
21. Constantine’s
Bibles
22. Codex Sinaiticus
23. Closing the
Canon
24. Philosophical
Issues: Diversity of Christianities
25. Philosophical
Issues: Subjectivism of Belief
26. Theological
Issue: Was Jesus married?
27. Other Historical
Claims
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DVC: The Bible calls Mary Magdalene a prostitute.
"That unfortunate misconception
[Mary Magdalene as a prostitute] is the legacy of a smear campaign
launched by the early Church. The Church needed to defame Mary Magdalene
in order to cover up her dangerous secret –– her role as the Holy
Grail." (p. 244)
Truth: Mary Magdalene in the Bible
 The
gospels never say Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. She was
- One of the women who accompanied the
Twelve and provided for their needs, (Lk 8:2)
- Present at Jesus's crucifixion (Mt
27:56, 61; Mk 16:1)
- Witness to his resurrection (Mt 28:1;
Mk 16:9; Lk 24:10, Jn 20:1-2)
- Seven demons driven out of her. (Mk
16:9, Lk 8:2)
Another woman named Mary
- The sister of Martha
- Listened to Jesus while her sister
served dinner (Lk 10:39).
(Same?) Mary of Bethany
- with Martha, were sisters to Lazarus
(Jn 11:2)
- washed Jesus’ feet (Jn 12:3).
(Same?) woman who anointed Jesus' head at Bethany
(Mt 26:6-13; Mk 14:3-9)
Mary Magdalene as prostitute seems to come from
identifying Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany (and possibly other
women?) with each other and with
- the woman caught in adultery (Jn
8:2-11) and/or
- the sinful woman who washed Jesus'
feet with her tears and anointed them (Lk 7:36-50).
The identification of all of these women
as Mary Magdalene first appears with Pope St. Gregory the Great where
she is a repentant prostitute and faithful follower of Jesus.
Eastern Orthodox Churches
- Never identified Mary Magdalene with
Mary of Bethany, nor with the repentant woman.
- Calls Mary Magdalene the ‘Equal to
the Apostles’ since Jesus appeared to her and told to announces
his resurrection.
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