Mary Magdalene

A Biography

De: Bruce Chilton

Narrado por: Jeff Harding

After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance within Christianity.

Throughout history, she has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms - witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, and the devoted companion (and perhaps even wife) of Jesus.

In this brilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblical scholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. His descriptions of who Mary was and what she did challenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar to most listeners.

Through groundbreaking interpretations of ancient texts, he shows that Mary played a central role in Jesus' ministry and was a seminal figure in the creation of Christianity.

©2005 Bruce Chilton (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Great Book!

Only my second book on Audible. This book very eye opening on Mary Magdalene. Learned a lot. Will probably read again. A lot to sink in. Lot of biblical stories reference etc

Thanks Audible!

Mary

Outstanding and will never be forgotten as she is above and beyond all doubt foe sure

Excellent

I enjoyed this book very much. So much to learn about this amazing woman. I am a novice so I will need to read again as it contains so much history and thought.

Historically speculative, theologically bizzare

There is a lot of good here. I appreciate his rejections of Middle Age legends and modern pseudo-feminist interpretations of Magdalene and Gnostic teaching. However, his argument against early church interpretation of bodily resurrection requires adherence to a conspiracy theory of power for a movement that lacked earthly power for 275 years. It's a mixed bag of good history, speculative history, conspiracy theory, and bizarre theology, all as it claims to reject speculation, conspiracy and orthodox theology.

A move for looking at what stories Magdalene may have been a source of in the gospels is interesting, but requires informed speculation. It is plausible at first. But then he asserts "facts" about Mary based on them that he reinforces with other speculation that he then claims as fact. It's an odd move.

Take a Pass on this Audiobook

I forced myself to listen to all chapters even though it was so poorly written ….and unless you have the intellect of a Biblical Scholar you’ll never follow the logic behind this attempt of explaining Mary Magdalene ‘s relationship with Jesus…..

Well read, poorly written.

The Author happily reaches conclusions with little evidence, even while chastising others for doing the same thing..