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- But Magdela does not also designate a “tower” in Aramaic?
- Of course. And we still find here the same idea of “highness”. One can then wonder if Mary was not nicknamed “The Tower” because of her “eminence”. In fact, this is the most immediate meaning of the word.
- A nickname of this kind would not have been surprising at that time. In the Gospel Simon Peter is nicknamed “The Rock” (Cephas), while James and John are nicknamed the “Sons of Thunder”…
- And James, called “the Just”, also called “the brother of the Lord”, was nicknamed the “Bulwark”. “The Tower”, “the Bulwark”, such appellations seem to have been more particularly common to designate those who, among the relatives of Jesus, were considered as “pillars”. It is surely no coincidence that the most beautiful of the towers of Jerusalem was called “Mariamne”, in other words “Mary”. “Mary the Tower” probably echoes this “Mariamne Tower”. Symbolically, James and Mary, the Bulwark and the Tower, may well have played, in the minds of early Christians, a role of spiritual protection vis-à-vis the Holy City and the community that resided there... Note that this link established between Mary of Magdala and “the Tower” is found in several ancient documents.
- But was not the Tower also one of the symbols of the Church? And is not the Virgin Mary sometimes invoked as “Ivory Tower” or “Tower of David”?
- As an impregnable fortress, the Tower, Magdela in Aramaic, was, in the Early Church, an image of virginity and chastity. The Church was early personified. She was compared to both a woman and a tower. And Jesus’ mother was early considered the “type”, the “figure” of that same Church. Note also that in early Syriac literature, Jesus himself is called Magdela, “the Tower”!
- You say that Jesus is also called Magdela?
- Yes, in some ancient documents written in Syriac. In Aphrahat and Ephrem, especially ...
- But something intrigues me: as it is a nickname, why do not the evangelists propose to us the translation of the words hê Magdalênê associated with the name of Mary?
- The answer may seem obvious: no doubt because no one, at the time of writing the Gospels, was ignorant of its meaning. Or, quite simply, the sobriquet was so attached to her that it did not need to be translated. Implicit is to Explicit as Speaking is to Writing. Volatile by nature, if it does not change Stage, it ends up getting lost...
- Just to recap: do the words translated by of Magdala refer to Mary “the Tower” or to Mary “the Great”?...
- The meaning is the same. In Hebrew, as in Aramaic, the former follows from the latter. In both cases, it is a laudatory designation attributed to Mary and intended to emphasize her eminent character: “the Great one”, “the Magnified one”, “the Exalted one”, or “the Tower”. By calling her this way, the evangelists had no reason to be more precise: their first recipients knew immediately who it was.
- A wealthy ex-prostitute?
- Absolutely not. It is quite the opposite.
- Is not this precisely the tradition of the Church?
- It depends on which church we are talking about. The Roman Catholic Church?
- Yes. We read in The Golden Legend of James of Voragine that the Magdalene – I quote: “gave herself to all delights of the body” and “for so much as she shone in beauty greatly, and in riches, so much the more she submitted her body to delight, and therefore she lost her right name, and was called customably a sinner”.
- James of Voragine is an Italian author of the thirteenth century. It is a medieval legend: it has no historical value.
- But James of Voragine perhaps preserves an echo of an older tradition?
- You are right, this tradition is indeed older. But its birth time is accurately known. It was officially born at the very end of the sixth century, more than five centuries after the final writing of the Gospels.
Mary Magdalene
The Unsuspected Truth
Part V
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Mary Magdalene The Unsuspected Truth (Part V) The unnamed "Sinner woman" (unknown artist) Mary of Magdala, Mary of Bethany and the unnamed "Sinner woman" - In the Gospels, however, there are two ...
Mary Magdalene
The Unsuspected Truth
Part I
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Mary Magdalene The Unsuspected Truth - Marie appelée la Magdaléenne (Marie, Marie-Madeleine)
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About the Author Thierry Murcia is a french historian (Doctor in History with highest honors, unanimous jury congratulations and special mention) who specializes in the study of ancient Judaism and
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Mary Magdalene and the Magnificat - Marie appelée la Magdaléenne (Marie, Marie-Madeleine)
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna del Magnificat (c. 1485) En F rançais Cliquer ci-dessous Sandro Botticelli, Madonna del Magnificat (c. 1485) Nous lisons en Luc 1, 39-57 : En ces jours-là, Marie partit et
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Mary of Magdala: the mother of Jesus? - thierry-murcia-recherches-historico-bibliques.over-blog.com
English translation of an article published in french in: Connaissance hellénique , BILLETS, N°141 (July 2015) http://ch.hypotheses.org/1278 About the Author Thierry Murcia is a french historian ...
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Which Mary is this? - Marie appelée la Magdaléenne (Marie, Marie-Madeleine)
Jesus and Mary The stained glass window of Kilmore Church (Scotland) Which Mary is this? Jesus and Mary , detail (stained glass window, Kilmore Church, Scotland) Who is the female character ...
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Jesus and Mary: The Kiss - Marie appelée la Magdaléenne (Marie, Marie-Madeleine)
Since the publication of the Da Vinci Code, the idea that Mary Magdalene may have been the sexual and/or mystical companion of Jesus has become obvious to many people. On some sites, which present ...
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John 19: 25-27 includes, not just one, but three successive chiasms (Thierry Murcia, 2015, 2017) which are themselves at the centre of a macro-chiasm highlighted by the eminent scholar Raymond E ...
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