Melvin and Magdalene

Karen Soole  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 2013
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Some Christians were offended by the airing of Melvin Bragg’s BBC documentary The Mystery of Mary Magdalene on Good Friday.

I was not one of them; possibly because my expectations were so low that I was pleasantly surprised by the affirmation of the Gospel accounts as historical evidence.

Strange ideas

Many people have strange ideas about Mary Magdalene which they have picked up from popular culture, such as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and the recently revived Jesus Christ Superstar. But I was intrigued that Melvin Bragg presented this documentary in terms of solving a great mystery. Why is Mary Magdalene considered to be a mystery?

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