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Mary Magdalene

Matthew 27:56, Mark 15:41, Luke 8:3

  • Matthew 27:56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • “Christ is Risen: The Nonsense of a Hysterical Woman” by Chesna Hinkley

  • "Mary Magdalene in Popular Culture" by Dan W. Clanton, Jr.

  • "Mary Magdalene: Preach Woman! Preach!" by Wilda C. Gafney

  • Was Mary Magdalene really from Magdala? Two scholars examine the evidence

  • “Mary Magdalene” by Kristin Swenson

  • “Who Was Mary Magdalene?” by James Carroll

  • “Women Erased: Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of John” with Elizabeth Schrader (Youtube Video)

  • “Mary Magdalene” podcast episode on The Bible Binge (August 30, 2020)

  • "Down with the Patriarchy! Remembering the Medieval Mary Magdalene" by Beth Allison Barr

  • “Women in Ancient Christianity: The New Discoveries” by Karen L. King on PBS Frontline

  • "NT Pod 13: Mary Magdalene: the First Woman Apostle" by Mark Goodacre

Books

  • Mary Magdalene and Many Others: Women Who Followed Jesus by Carla Ricci (1994)

  • "Mary Magdalene and Her Interpreters" by Brittany E. Wilson in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

To correctly use the search bar, follow these guidelines:

  • Use proper capitalization (for example, capitalize “N” in “Naomi” instead of writing “naomi”)

  • Use proper spacing (“Mary of Bethany” as opposed to “MaryofBethany”)

  • Write out the full name of the woman you’re searching for, if you know it (for example, “The Samaritan Woman”). If writing out the full name does not work, simply type in “Samaritan” and see if “The Samaritan Woman” appears.

  • If the search bar is still not yielding your results, it might be because we have altered the woman’s name based on scholarship we found (for example, we have Naomi listed as “Naomi/Mara”). You can always find a specific woman by going to the navigation bar, clicking Old Testament or New Testament, and scrolling down to her appropriate genre and book.

  • To find a woman manually, note that the women listed on this site are listed in the order they appear in scripture (for example, women in Genesis chapter 1 are listed before women in Genesis chapter 2).

This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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