The real Mary of Magdala.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor) From: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Bellevie, Lesa | COPYRIGHT 2005 Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Regarding "The Da Vinci Code Cult," by Robeit Sheaffer (Vol. 11, No. 4, 2005), I was pleased over all with his treatment of the subject. However, Sheaffer appears to depend on an introduction to The Gospel of Mary given in the The Nag Hammadi Library in English, put together in the 1970s, for his dating of the text to the early fifth century C.E. According to the most recent scholarship (The Gospel of Mary of Magdala by Harvard Divinity School's Karen L. King, 2003) the text can be...

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