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| April 01, 2002 | Monaghan, Patricia | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Leloup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Tr. by Joseph Rowe. 2002. 192p. illus. Inner Traditions, paper, $14.95 (0-89281-911-1). 229.

Interest in Mary Magdalene, the quasi-legendary woman of the Gospels who stood in an ambiguous relationship to Jesus, is booming just now. According to noncanonical sources, she was Jesus' wife, and probably not the prostitute with whom she is often conflated or confused. Among those unorthodox sources is one of the fragmentary early texts rejected by the church fathers ...

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