{"id":212,"date":"2014-11-10T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=212"},"modified":"2014-11-10T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:26:49","slug":"jesus-married-to-magdalene-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/jesus-married-to-magdalene-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Married to Magdalene With Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/jesus-christ-wife-mary-magdalene-kids-book-claims\/story?id=26805418<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ, Wife Mary Magdalene Had 2 Kids, New Book Claims<\/p>\n

A new book based on interpretations of ancient texts features an explosive claim: Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, and the couple had two children.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Lost Gospel,\u201d set for release Wednesday, authors Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson argue that the original Virgin Mary was Jesus\u2019 wife \u2013 not his mother \u2013 and that there was an assassination attempt on Jesus\u2019 life 13 years before he was crucified.<\/p>\n

The writers say they spent six years working on the book. Their arguments are based on an ancient manuscript dating back nearly 1,500 years, one they say they found in a British library, translating the text from an Aramaic dialect into English.<\/p>\n

Mark Goodacre, a professor of religious studies at Duke University, is skeptical of the book\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that there is any credibility in these claims at all,\u201d Goodacre said. \u201cThere is simply no evidence in this text or anywhere else that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, much less that they had a couple of children.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first assertion that Jesus was married. A fragment of an ancient Egyptian papyrus known as the \u201cGospel of Jesus\u2019s Wife\u201d was unveiled in 2012, containing the phrase \u201cJesus said to them, \u2018My wife,\u201d although the document was written centuries after Jesus died.<\/p>\n

The 2003 novel \u201cThe Da Vinci Code\u201d by Dan Brown also highlighted the possibility of Jesus\u2019 having been married to Mary Magdalene.<\/p>\n

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Personally I do not believe the Virgin Mary was Mary Magdalene…. sheesh,\u00a0what a stretch to conflate those two!\u00a0\u00a0We have the extra-biblical Gospel of Philip that says “Jesus had three Marys in his life, his mother, his sister and his wife”. But this topic is still one of our favorites, and we do believe Jesus and Magdalene were a couple, probably with children, so I will buy the book. Friend (and teacher) Margaret Starbird was interviewed by\u00a0the author Simcha Jacobovici\u00a0during the writing of it, so hopefully some of her views will be in there.<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here to\u00a0where this article appears in ABC News<\/a> to see a\u00a0nifty video which includes snippets from The DaVinci Code<\/em> movie\u00a0about the married Jesus. Shows that awesome flip-graphic where Magdalene sits next to Jesus\u00a0in\u00a0Leonardo’s painting The\u00a0Last Supper<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/jesus-christ-wife-mary-magdalene-kids-book-claims\/story?id=26805418 Jesus Christ, Wife Mary Magdalene Had 2 Kids, New Book Claims A new book based on interpretations of ancient texts features an explosive claim: Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, and the couple had two children. In \u201cThe Lost Gospel,\u201d set for release Wednesday, authors Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson argue that the original Virgin … Continue reading Jesus Married to Magdalene With Kids<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magdalene"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-3q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}