This website is designed as a showcase for the books "Mary Magdelene and The Gospel of John" and "Mary Magdalene and the First Chrisitians" by Dr Ian Poole. The books are a genuinely new and quite revolutionary view of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and underlines her seminal role in the foundation of the Christian Church.
Mary Magdalene’s place in the history of Christianity has been hidden for two millennia. During the post-crucifixion period the new forces in the early church did their best to remove her entirely from history. Fortunately, there were events in the life of Jesus in which everyone know she was involved: the events at the empty tomb or the raising of Lazarus being two. She could not be removed from such events, but her role was made subordinate to the other male Apostles. Later, Paul, known for his misogyny, refused to acknowledge her contribution.
The three synoptic gospels were written by people who did not know Jesus: they were not there. The Fourth Gospel, John, was written by a companion of Jesus, and differs completely from the other three. In spite of that, most experts choose to believe the totally artificial history created by the three synoptic gospels, and declare the Fourth Gospel as ‘unhistoric’. Recently the suggestion was made that Mary Magdalene was the author of the Fourth Gospel, and only later was it falsely accredited to John. This book takes up and fully develops that line of research.
Many books have been written about Mary Magdalene. This book proves that they are all nonsense. Mary was most definitely not married to Jesus, and therefore the whole edifice of a ‘da Vinci’ bloodline is simply fiction. Neither she nor Jesus were married. Neither was Mary merely a personification of Isis designed to placate the needs of a pagan audience.
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