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The gospel of Mary of Magdala

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:13 am
by Marie Al Ahl Mahdi
Where did the Gospel of Mary come from? Over a hundred years ago, in January of 1896, a seemingly insignificant event took place on the antiquities market in Cairo. A manuscript dealer, whose name history has forgotten, offered a papyrus book for sale to a German scholar. It eventually became clear that the book was a fifth-century CE papyrus codex, written in the Coptic language. Unbeknownst to either of them, it contained the Gospel of Mary along with three other previously unknown works, the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and the Act of Peter. This seemingly small event turned out to be of enormous significance.