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Nessie wrote:
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> >I would speculate that the person who originally dubbed Mary Magdalene
> as a prostitute was incensed upon realizing that a woman could possibly
> have been the first Apostle.
>
> There's another explanation. The pagans who lived in the area practiced
> ritual prostitution as part of their religion. The money went to temple
> maintance and to charity. She could have been a practitioner, or even a
> priestess.
Extremely unlikely. Jesus was a practicing Jew. He would not even have had
access to such a person. There were no Pagan temples in Jewish Jerusalem.
One of the reasons for the first Jewish revolt was because the Romans
displayed their shields and eagles in Jerusalem's holy areas where graven
images were particularly offensive.
There is really no way to know who MM was. The OT is notoriously unreliable
with names and characters. Much of this was intentional. The compilers of
the OT ( 300 years after the death of Jesus ) did not want Christians to
know that Jesus had many siblings. They obfuscated names and used several
names for the same people, as well as giving the same people different
roles in the mythology.
Mary could have been his sister.
Joshua2
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