The Jesus-Mary Magdalene Wedding-Industrial Complex is at it again. The latest effort to get Jesus hitched to his most famous female disciple comes from maverick Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and maverick Canadian biblical scholar Barrie Wilson, in their already-bestselling new book, The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesusâ?? Marriage to Mary the Magdalene.
The Jacobovici-Wilson book, released to press fanfare on November 12, follows hard on the heels of Harvard Divinity School professor Karen L. Kingâ??s revelation in 2012 of a scrap of ancient-looking papyrus bearing the words â??and Jesus said to them, â??my wife.â??â??â? King argued that the â??wife,â? although not named in the fragment, was probably Mary Magdalene. Journalists, academics, and clergypeople alike went all aflutter for months speculating whether Dan Brownâ??s blockbuster 2003 novel The Da Vinci Codeâ??which also unites Jesus and the Magdalene in wedlockâ??could have a grain of truth to it, and what it would mean for the future of Christianity had its founder, traditionally regarded as celibate, turned out to be not so.
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