Raphael’s Mary Magdalene is a willowy figure standing in front of a black geometric background. She’s without her signature jar of oil with which she anointed Jesus, and instead wears a shaggy ...

Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene ... is to Mary Magdalene. Here’s the reason that it really matters: right now in your Bible as it is translated, Martha, not Mary, gives the ...

For example, only a few names of women were widely known: Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene, his disciple and the first witness to the resurrection; Mary and Martha, the sisters who ...