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After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance within Christianity. Throughout history, she has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms - witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, and the devoted companion (and perhaps even wife) of Jesus. In this brilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblical scholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. His descriptions of who Mary was and what she did challenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar to most listeners.

Mencionada tanto en el Nuevo Testamento como en varios evangelios apócrifos, su figura ha desatado desde siempre una gran polémica. Considerada santa por la Iglesia Católica Romana, la Iglesia Ortodoxa y la Comunión Anglicana, ella reviste una especial importancia para las corrientes gnósticas del cristianismo.