The Meaning of "Magdalene": A Review of Literary Evidence.
While it is common today to refer to Jesus’s disciple Μαρία[μ] ἡ Μαγδαληνή as Mary "of Magdala," with Magdala identified as a Galilean city named Tarichaea, what do our earliest Christian sources actually indicate about the meaning of this woman’s name? Examination of the Gospel of Luke, Origen, Eus...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 140; no. 4; pp. 751 - 774 |
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