Mary Magdalene
The Ancients
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The Myth of Mary Magdalen
We don't know the age of mary magdalen at all. Most likely she was very sick, according to the gospel of luke. She is a real shape shifter. Over the century, she gets configured in whatever way seems to suit ideals of the time or fit in with certain ideas of femininity. And as theology changes, she changes. So it's very hard to sort of peel back, after all these centuries of building her up to create an idea of who she really was.
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