Apostle to the Apostles …
Bruce Chilton, a professor of Religion at Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson and a priest at the Free Church of Saint John in Barrytown, New York, has written a new piece on Mary Magdalene.
Chilton takes on the challenge of trying to construct a biography of Mary in order to situate her more properly within and without the traditional images we have of her from scripture, drama, and the arts.
The sparse details in the Gospels are but clues to her identity. Many people have tied her to other unnamed women in the Gospels in order to produce a sketch of the person so important to the post-resurrection period of Christianity.
…. I’ll post more after finishing reading the book.
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