--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: <snip> > There are two people here: you mention Mary of Magdala, > This is a different person than Mary Magdalene. No, same lady. "Magdalene" means "of Magdala" (just as "Nazarene" means "of Nazareth"). > From the New Testament, you know the story of Jesus saving Mary > Magdalene from death by stoning. No, actually the woman Jesus saves from stoning is anonymous. There's no hint anywhere in the Gospels that it was Mary Magdalene. There was a later *tradition* that Mary Magdalene had been a prostitute, but there's nothing in the Bible to support it. (Interestingly, the story of the woman taken in adultery, wonderful as it is, is almost certainly a later scribal addition, not originally in the Gospel of John. Whether that means it never happened is another issue entirely.)
