According to Mary Magdalene is a novel (English language version published 2003) by the Swedish novelist Marianne Fredriksson. It portrays the life of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as told by herself. The author claims to have based the book on Gnostic manuscripts, such as the Gospel of Mary, that were discovered in recent times. Marianne Fredriksson (born Gothenburg, March 28, 1927) is a Swedish author. ... Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. ... The Gospel of Mary was found in the Akhmim Codex, a text acquired by Dr.Rheinhardt in Cairo in 1896. ...
The story offers a feminine perspective on the person of Christ and on the beginning of the Christian Church (dominated entirely by men). Since it presents Jesus as a human being and deviates from the orthodox biblical portrayal of the son of men, the novel was severely criticised by conservative Christians.
MaryMagdalen was so called either from Magdala near Tiberias, on the west shore of Galilee, or possibly from a Talmudic expression meaning "curling women's hair," which the Talmud explains as of an adulteress.
Yet it is MaryMagdalen who, according to all the Evangelists, stood at the foot of the cross and assisted at the entombment and was the first recorded witness of the Resurrection.
Magdalen is said to have retired to a hill, La Sainte-Baume, near by, where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years.
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