Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene
She is called "Magdalena", because she was a city of Galilee, called "Magdalena" ("tower"), mentioned only in Matthew. 15:39. In the parallel passage in Mark 8:10 this place is called Dalmanutha. It was on the west bank Lake Tiberias, and now is probably the small obscure village called el-Mejdel, about 3 miles northwest of Tiberias. In the Talmud this city is called "the Color City "and a particular district which was called" the tower of dyers. "indigo plant was grown a lot here.
Mary Magdalena is a very important person in the New Testament, and somewhat controversial, a bit like San Pedro. – From Peter who denied the Lord Jesus brought out a Saint. – From a prostitute, Jesus brought out of St. Mary Magdalene, a faithful disciple, present on Calvary for burial and immediately after the Resurrection, "Apostle to the Apostles", says John Paul II, because Jesus told him after the Resurrection, go to my brothers and tell them 'I am returning to My Father and your Father, to my God and your God .'… and Magdalena did just that. Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her. ((Jn.20 :17-18).
First encounter with Jesus, Magdalene is mentioned only in Matt. 15:39 end the miracle of Jesus feeding the 4,000 (Mat.15 :29-39), and probably knew Jesus to Mary Magdalene for the first time for this miracle in the vicinity of Magdala.
First mention of Mary Magdalene: A prostitute?
The first time it is mentioned in the Bible is found in Luke 8:3: After this, Jesus went to a village and town to town, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, 2and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out; 3Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod home, Susanna and many others. These women were helping to underwrite its own. (Lk.8 :1-3).
Mary Magdalene is mentioned as some women who had cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out, (Lk.8 :1-3). Thus, according to Dr. Magdalena Domonguez is first mentioned in the Bible as a prostitute, which is the meaning of Jesus' seven demons cast out of it. But now is a good student, even helping with their money, these women were helping to support outside their own. (Lk.8: 3).
The faces of Mary Magdalene:
Siglo VI: In 591, Pope Gregory the Great, emphasized the fact that Mary had worked as a prostitute: "She had wanted with earthly eyes, but now through penitence these are consumed by tears … She turned the mass of her crimes to virtues. "The pope was criticized, but the doctor Dominguez feels he was right. He presented the Magdalene as "a model of penance."
Century 13: In 1275, Jacobus de Voragine, a Dominican monk, author of "The Golden Legend," which claimed Mary Magdalene had settled in France after the Resurrection. There he preached the Gospel before retiring to a cave in which place she did not have the convenience of running water, no comfort from the trees, or herbs. "The Tale was one of the Most popular of the Middle Ages.
20th Century: In 1971, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" presented the world with a thoroughly modern Mary, powerful, pretty, and still a prostitute. In her signature song "I Do not Know How to Love Him," who stunned within the meaning of Jesus in it: "It's just a man. And I've had so many men before, in many ways, he is just one more."
Century 21: In 2003 "The Da Vinci Code" claims that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and conceived a child together. Dr. Dominguez believes that "The Da Code Vinci is the worst book and movie ever made on the Magdalena, is a fantasy even more heretical and false, is "ridiculous.
The Magdalena on Calvary and the tomb:
55Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care their needs. 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. (Mat.27: 55, Mc. 115:41, Lk.23: 55). evening 57As he approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus. 58Going to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given him. 59Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60and put it in his new tomb which he had cut in the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb. (Mt 27:57-61).
The Magdalene after the Resurrection:
The four Gospels describe Jesus' resurrection on the first Sunday of the East and the four Gospels mention Mary Magdalene by name, all the Gospels in his last chapter, except John, who is the most extensive and dedicated to the last two chapters, 20 and 21. Magdalena was the first to see the open grave, two angels appeared and asked her: 13They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" (Jn.20) Now it is Jesus himself who appeared to Mary Magdalene: "They have taken away my Lord," she said, and I do not know where they laid him. "14At this, she turned and saw Jesus standing, but she did not realize it was Jesus. 15 "Women" he said, "Why are you crying?" Who are you looking? " Thinking it was the gardener, said: "Lord, if thou have borne him, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I get him." 16Jesus said, "Mary." She turned and shouted in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (Meaning Teacher). 17Jesus said, "Do not approach me because I have not yet been returned to Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them: "I return to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." "18Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her. (Jn.20). Here Jesus told Mary Magdalene to go to the Apostles and give them a massage, she is the Apostle to the Apostles, as has been noted by John Paul II, Go instead to my brothers and tell them: "I return to my Father and your Father; my God and your God. "" And that's exactly what he did Mary Magdalene was 18Mary the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her. (Jn.20).
The Magdalena could not touch Jesus in Jn.20, 17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not, I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. (John 20:17, KJV) ..
This is the description on the four Gospels:
John 20 The Empty Tomb
1Early the first day of the week, while still was dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2SO she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said: "They have taken the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they laid him!" 3So Peter and the other disciple went to the tomb. 4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5HE leaned over and looked out the strips of linen lying but did not 6Then Simon Peter I was behind him, arrived and entered the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying 7AS and the shroud that had covered Jesus' head. The cloth was folded by itself, separate from the clothing. 8Finally the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also entered. He saw and believed. 9 (They had not yet understand the Scriptures that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) (Jn.20 :1-9) Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes, 11but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white sitting where the Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord, "she said, and I do not know where they laid him. "14At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not realize it was Jesus. 15 "Woman," he said, "Why are you crying? Whom do you seek? "Thinking he was the gardener, said:" Lord, if thou have borne him, tell me where You post, and I will get him. "16Jesus said," Mary. "She turned and said in Aramaic," Rabboni! "(Meaning Teacher). 17Jesus said, "Do not cling to me, that have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them:" I return to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. "17Jesus said to him: Do not touch me, I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. (RV). 18Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.
Matthew 28 The Resurrection
1after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4The guards were so afraid they trembled and became like dead men. 5The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid because I know that ye seek Jesus who was crucified. 6He is not here, He is risen, as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He is risen from the dead and goes before you into Galilee. There you will see. "I told you. 8So women away from the tomb, afraid yet cheerful, and ran to tell his disciples. 9Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. And they came and held his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there I see." Report 11While Guard women were on their way, some of the guards entered the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12When the chief priests met with the elders and devised a plan, which gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13telling them, "You will say, 'His disciples came at night and stole him away while we slept. '14If this report gets to the governor, we will meet and stay out of trouble. "15So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this History has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.
Mark 16 The Resurrection
1When the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they can go to anoint Jesus' body. 2Very early the first day of the week, just after exit Sun, who were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone from the door of the tomb?" 4 But when they looked, they saw stone, which was very large, had been removed. 5A entering the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and was alarmed. 6 "No worry, "he said." You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has risen! He's not here. See the place where he lay. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, "He who goes before you into Galilee. Do not you see, as I said." 8Trembling and bewildered, the women fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
Luke 24 The Resurrection
1on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, women the spices they had prepared and went to the grave. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they found the body of Jesus. 4While wondered about this, suddenly two men dressed in shining like lightning stood beside them. 5In his fear of women bowed their faces to the earth, but men He said, "Why seek the living among the dead? 6He is not here, He is risen! Remember how I told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7'The Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and the third day rise again. "Agreed his 8Then words. 9When returning from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all others. 10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others with them who told this to the apostles. 11But they did not believe that women, because their words seemed absurd. 12Peter, however, got up and ran the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and left, wondering to himself what had happened.
Apocrypha Gospels and The Da Vinci Code ":
All of this is from the Bible, the Word of God, "but there are more than 30 books, called Apocryphal or Gnostic, which are not in the Bible, and have been declared heretical by the church for centuries. The Da Vinci Code is even misquoted books Apocrypha. For example, the Da Vinci Code claims that the Gnostic Gospel of Mary is to trust the Church of Christ to Mary Magdalene. It is not. It's about Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after the resurrection with a Gnostic revelation that she immediately put to the disciples and the disciples then arguing about whether Jesus would entrust such an important thing for a recommended woman.Dr Harding Karen King's Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Rivalry between St. Mary Magdalene and Peter S.?:
Based mainly on the above and the Apocrypha Gnostic heretic Gnostics have tried some often imagine a false rivalry between San Pedro and Santa Maria Magdalena … discrimination and even more imagination against women in the church of Christ is true Mary Magdalene is never mentioned after the Gospels, nor in the Acts or the Epistles. But Mary Magdalene is a saint of the church, Santa Maria never Magdalena, and Pedro had no personal problem with Mary Magdalene, according to the Bible, the Word of God.
However, the Magdalena lives in another tradition can be found in an obscure text of the second century. Nicknamed "The Gospel of Mary", which represents Mary as a leader of Jesus " followers in the days after his resurrection. Written by Christians some 90 years after the death of Jesus, Mary is a "Gnostic Gospel" the Gnostics, a significant force in the early years of Christianity, stressed salvation through study and self-knowledge and not simply through faith. The text was lost for centuries until found in fragments of a collector in Cairo in 1896.
In his account rises, Jesus and disappears after instructing his disciples to "preach the good news about the Kingdom." The call becomes uncomfortable, that Christ had died preaching the gospel. What was to save them from a similar fate? Mary, however, is serene. "Do not cry and be depressed nor let your heart be undecided," she tells them. "For his grace be with you and that you shelter." Jesus, he says, has appeared to her in a vision in which he gave a special knowledge the soul's journey through mystical realms. She tells the men that will help them understand the true teachings of Christ: "What is hidden from you I will reveal to you. "
His words seem to bite others. Peter, "an angry man" offending in particular. "Do you really talk privately with a woman without our knowledge? "he asked." In case all around and listen? "Above all, he is jealous:" He preferred she to us? "It's an issue that is rocking the Christian after two millennia. For many feminists and liberal theologians, the Gospel of Mary suggests that the Magdalene, first witness of the resurrection, was the "apostle to the apostles", a figure equal (or even most-favored) status for men around Jesus, a woman so threatening that the apostles abolished its role, and those of other women, in an attempt to build a patriarchal hierarchy in the early church.
For others, in the form of orthodoxy, Mary was a major player in the life and ministry of Jesus, but subordinate to the men who followed him. Now, thanks to "Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code", read by some 60 million people and opened in 3735 cinemas across the country, Maria Magdalena has a new role: the wife of Jesus and mother of his son, whom Mary, who allegedly escaped from the Holy Land, raised after the death of Jesus. Of According to the "Code", which opened to lukewarm reviews but current office safe baby grew up to marry a royal line in France, and the descendants of Jesus and Mary is in Europe to this day. In one particularly affecting scene but pure fantasy, a character says that the figure on the right hand of Jesus in "The Last Supper of Leonardo," is not a male disciple but Mary Magdalene, and that if a consolidation of the paint, putting "Mary" to the left of Jesus, which complement each other, men and women, a human-a married couple, united forever. It is cinematically interesting, but like most the Brown's novel and the film is a fantasy and not fact, and not for the first time, Mary Magdalene is a vehicle of the fever fiction.
Mary Magdalene – literature, legend, politics and theology
From the beginning, the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus has been the subject of literature and legend, politics and theology, controversy and conflict. From one time to change its image in the minds of believers, historians and artists has reflected the character of the times, so much so that it is difficult to recover the historical Mary Magdalene of the centuries of myths. However, history sheds light on key issues from the role of women in Judaism of the first century of the nature of Jesus' ministry for the formation of early Christianity. Understand their relationship with Jesus and the religion that came to give his name offers a window to the fluid nature of faith, and tensions about sex and power that shape yet, in the third millennium since that morning in the empty tomb. Mary was always a woman problem.
Although the authors of the Gospels mention I can not help su-13 times in the New Testament, which provides some details of his life. It may have been accidental: the women were considered untrustworthy in the Roman world, and the Gospels, eager to make new converts, probably did not want to highlight the fact that a woman was a key witness of the Resurrection story-a story that was already difficult enough to explain. The Gospels of the New Testament "says a woman named Mary Magdalene was a follower of Jesus and played a role in an era of betrayal and resurrection, "says Elaine Pagels, a professor of early Christian history at Princeton." But beyond that tell us little about what your role was. "Researchers have also collected suggestions from some of the New Testament provides.
Many have interpreted the observation Lucas Mary and other women around Jesus "I used their property" as evidence that provided the financial support for the ministry of Jesus. But Where would this money have gone? The marriage contract? A divorce settlement? An inheritance? A job? The Gospels do not provide any direction, but a sign that women played an essential role in the life of Jesus. Another detail: the name of Mary. Most women in the New Testament are identified by their relationship with men (Mary the wife of Cleophas, for example, is different from Mary the mother of James.) However, the Magdalene is distinguished by his hometown the port city of Magdala.
No husband ever appears-an explanation, perhaps, of how she was able to travel freely with Jesus. He never married at all? "A free woman who never married, probably have been very rare," says Ross Kraemer, a Brown University professor of religious studies. The entire New Testament really tells us about Mary is that she entered the ministry of Jesus to preach throughout Galilee, who had been possessed by seven demons, but it was gone, and, of course, who announced the resurrection. Never learn their craft, color your hair, whether it was old or young, friendly and beautiful. However, since the first time Christianity, there were other voices, too, who are determined to present a fuller picture of the Magdalene. In several Gnostic Gospels, texts whose dissemination in the last 50 years has turned to the study of Christian origins in his head, she is not the wallflower of the New Testament, but rather a favor, perhaps favorite follower of Christ. In the Gospel of Thomas, she and another woman, Salome, is one of six (not 12) the true disciples of Jesus. In the Dialogue of the Savior Gnostic referred to "as the woman who understands all things."
More convincing is the Gospel of Mary, not only for her portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a strong-willed woman, but also for his radical ideas about gender. While Mary is called the "beloved disciple of Salvador … more that all other women, "she and Jesus see gender as irrelevant, something that will disappear on the way to the next life." The article argues that distinction between men and women is one of the body, which will dissolve, "says Harvard historian Karen King." The basis for leadership lies in the spiritual development. "The canonical Gospels do not provide a disturbing answer. In the Gnostic texts, Mary is under constant attack, often from Peter. "Tell Mary that we are going," implores Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, "for women are not worthy of life." Mary understands the threat. "I have fear of Peter, "says Jesus in the Gnostic dialogue Pistis Sophia." He threatens me and hates our race. "The Pope made his new reformed whore Maria for he knew that the faithful need a history of penance that was both fascinating and inspiring. The early Middle Ages were a time of tremendous social upheaval of war and disease roiled nations and sent destitute women in the streets.
Gregory Church needed a circle of Jesus' character, who provided an answer to this misery, which showed that the way of Christ was an escape from the pressures of the sinful world. The Magdalena mysterious history of the resurrection was peripheral enough to be reinvented. Finally, the church fathers were able to put the disadvantage women to good use. Christianity enthusiastically embraced his new saint sinner.
The cult of Mary Magdalene
Magdalena cult spread throughout Europe, from England, where Mary became the patron saint of lepers, to Florence, where prostitutes and young men ran a race in your holiday. In Germany, the Sisters of the Blessed Penitent Magdalene took the lead in the reform of wayward women in Spain, young men on stilts danced with the icon of Mary in the streets. The French fell in love particularly with the Magdalena-tan love, of course, that made in French. In the 13th century, a Dominican monk, published the Golden Legend, which claimed that after the death of Jesus and Mary had fled Jerusalem and ended in southern Gaul. His spirit, the story said, protected in France. There was no historical evidence to support this claim, only the imagination of the narrators of Provence. Still, the legend continues. Dan Brown claim that Mary Magdalene spent his last years in Provence has its roots in the tales of medieval France "
Dr. Jeronimo Dominguez edited by Dr. Simon Harding
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