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MARY “THE HAIRDRESSER”?

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Mary Magdalene The Unsuspected Truth (Part III)

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Mary "The Hairdresser"? 

 

-          So, in the Talmud, is not the mother of Jesus called “Mary the hairdresser”?

-          Not exactly. In fact, she is called Miriam megaddela, in other words: Mary megaddela.

-          Mary megaddela? But it looks strangely like “Mary of Magdala”! And no one has yet noticed this similarity?

-          Yes, of course. This sound proximity between Mary megaddela and Mary of Magdala early attracted the attention of scholars. But many have claimed that it was only a singular coincidence. Others have even argued that there would have been, in fact, two different Mary of Magdala and that one of them would have been wrongly confused with Jesus’ mother… Some, finally, did not hesitate to attribute to the “malevolence of the Jews” this confusion between Mary mother of Jesus and Mary of Magdala.

-          That is to say?

-          To make the mother of Jesus an ex-prostitute would have been, according to them, only a means of discrediting Christ. But this is a baseless assumption.

-          And what element allows you to be so affirmative?

-          It is quite simple: the tradition which makes Mary of Magdala an ex-prostitute was not yet known in Babylon when the rabbis are supposed to have transmitted it. For the scribes of the Talmud, Mary of Magdala was not a “woman of ill-repute” but only an unfaithful wife of whom Jesus is the son. Admittedly, the charge is heavy. But this is only a way of saying that Jesus is an illegitimate child and that therefore Christianity, which follows from it, has no legitimacy either.

-          A kind of metaphor, then?

-          Absolutely. But the important point for us is that this Miriam megaddela is presented as being Jesus’ own mother in all the rabbinic sources we have available!

-          But where does such confusion come from?

-          This is not a confusion but a tradition.

-          An independent Jewish tradition?

-          No. Rabbinical sources only echo here an ancient tradition that has its roots in Eastern Christianity of the very first centuries. This early tradition identifies Mary of Magdala with the mother of Jesus. 

-          Mary of Magdala… the mother of Jesus?

-          Exactly. This tradition is very ancient, and it is attested in many documents.

 

 

Mary Magdalene

The Unsuspected Truth

Part IV

Mary Magdalene

The Unsuspected Truth

Part I

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