The painting was a commission from Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan and Da Vinci's employer for nearly 18 years (1482-1499). 1 decade ago. Sophia, herself, became entrapped in matter until the arrival of her divine counterpart who came to help assist all souls in their attachments to matter. It has always been clear that the Gospel of John is not being totally forthright. Jesus constantly faced rigid religious leaders who were so preoccupied with maintaining purity and orthodoxy, they either could not see or refused to see the incarnation of God right in their midst. This is a ‘rain-making’ miracle-working inference that would have appropriately related to Queen Helen’s saving of Jerusalem during the three year drought. Jacob met his wife, Rachel, at a well. Bridal Chamber Christianity with its element of the Sophia Mythos must have had a strong Samaritan flavor. And, lastly, there is that small collection of disciples who, after a deep engagement with Jesus, recognize him as the Messiah and publicly confess it. Eaton S. Barrett—Woman. He asked her for a drink, and their talk took off from there — culminating in her salvation and many more from her town, too. King Izates was born about the year 1 and ascended to his throne about the year 29. Then there are those who know Jesus is the Messiah and are out to kill him for it. Adiabene was a small part of a larger country called Osrhenia which included Edessa as the Western Capitol of a country in the Parthian Empire. A community in San Diego invited me to preach at its celebration of "the Apostle to the Apostles." St. Mary Magdalene in Gilbert, Arizona is a Roman Catholic Parish that witnesses the love of Jesus Christ through evangelization, catechesis, and celebration of the Sacraments. Rather than choosing a Gospel narrative about Mary Magdalene, they chose instead the story of the Samaritan woman in chapter 4 of John's Gospel.Looking at this text and comparing it to the story of Mary Magdalene, I was struck by the parallels that I found between these women. The point of the Sophia Mythos is that all creation partakes of a co-creative and equal syzygy of male and female. Most of them, however, have chosen to remain closeted, because the hierarchy has insisted that the desires of their bodies, emotions and spirits are intrinsically disordered. Eisenman portrays Judas Thomas as being the right-hand man of James after the death of Jesus in delivering a pastoral and directive letter to a foreign king who was probably the Jewish convert, King Izates, of Adiabene outlining the parameters of the movement like James the Just does in discussing gentile converts to Jewish Christianity. The tomb still exists and her sarcophagus is a museum relic. The scholar, Robert Eisenman, has made the point that Peter could have been a much more conservative, Jewish figure than New Testament viewpoints reflect. Listening to the Gospel stories, the early church understood just how subversive Jesus' words were and how scandalous his work was. It … The margins of the church seem to be widening every day. It will be seen that she is the central secret of the Gospel of John: the “disciple who Jesus loved” that allowed Samaritan communities into a conversation about her role but did not scandalize others who could read into it what they wished. Both Mary Magdalene and Helen, the consort, are heavily fictionalized characters but there is a third personality from that same period in Jerusalem who was an historical person written about by Josephus who even left artifacts. Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery “Neither do I … Here, again, we have Moses giving water like Jesus offered ‘living water’. In Jesus' time, the Samaritans were considered impure, so much so that even entering into Samaria was considered contaminating. Here, again, the Baptist associates the Spirit with Jesus that God gives him “without limit”. Mary Magdalene was a friend, a confidante, a disciple, and someone who helped to empower the ministry. Since the fourth century, stories, stained glass and paintings have portrayed her as a prostitute and public sinner who, after encountering Jesus, spent the rest of her life in private prayer and penitence. ”None can see himself in water or in a mirror without light. The Gospel of John is not only terribly defensive about the Baptist movement and Syrian Christianity but about the whole Sophia Mythos which underlies Bridal Chamber Christianity in emphasizing that the Holy Spirit only comes from and through Jesus. [Jamie L. Manson received her Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, where she studied Catholic theology and sexual ethics. They both would have been roughly in their late forties in the 30’s. Below are a few links to their inspiring works! The male disciples would be a perfect example. Simon and Andrew in The Chosen. The first actual appearance of Mary by name comes in John in the ‘Raising of Lazarus’ scene. Even the Gospel of Philip admits that he kissed her often on the lips. Theory 3: Mary Magdalene is the woman caught in adultery in John 7:53-8:11 “The woman taken in adultery” by Rembrandt (1644) – Public domain . The husbands of Helen of Troy were Theseus, Menelaus, Paris, Deiphobus, and Achilles. Jesus is asked by “Samaritans” to stay with them “two days”. It can be well thought that after the death of Jesus that Matthew took on the role of spiritual teacher to Mary. The Samaritan woman is the first to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Abraham’s servant, as well, found a wife for Abraham’s son, Isaac, at a well when Rebekah showed her kindness in watering the stranger’s camels. It is ironic and tragic that the prominence of Mary Magdalene and the Samaritan woman in the Jesus story forced male tradition-makers to turn them each into different kind of scandalous woman. The Woman at the Well is clearly outside the Jewish-Christian sphere. Why does Nicodemus pop in to history in the Gospel of John and then disappear out of Church history? She was known as Helen, the Queen of Adiabene. Not only is the Woman found worthy beyond everyone else in Palestine to receive this declaration but she acts as an apostle to some of her town’s people who become followers. It has been conjectured that ‘Arimathea’ may have come from a bastardization of ‘bar Matthew’ or ‘son of Matthew’. However, there is a great confusion surrounding her person. Ca 40’s CE, ed. The earliest Jewish Christian gospel of all is ascribed to Matthew. Yet, she looms so large in all four Roman Gospels as well as in Nag Hammadi literature, generally, as the elephant in the living room of the first century among Samaritans, Jewish Christians, Herodians, and Syrians alike. Mary Magdalene is thought to be the woman with the alabaster box Mary Magdalene and the woman at the well couldn’t help but share their good news. Both Moses and Jesus interact with foreign women early in the day at a well and are invited to stay with them later. This is no small feat in the Gospel of John, where there are three kinds of people. The entire Woman at the Well passage lends itself to allegorical interpretation since it happens at “Jacob’s well” which is a highly charged sexual reference involving the exchange of fluids in an intimate situation. Of even less help is that central figures in gospel accounts aren’t always mentioned by name. “Martha” literally means ‘mistress’ as an appropriate name for King Izate’s wife. That strains credulity. “Martha” can be seen to be the wife of Izates who was named Samacho. After Moses and Zipporah marry she gives birth to two sons just as Helen, the Queen of Adiabene had two sons. Among the seemingly anonymous women in the gospels are the adulteress ( John 8:3-11 ), the penitent woman who anoints Jesus with oil (Matthew, Mark, & John), and the woman who anoints Jesus’ feet with her tears ( Luke … John clearly has Samaritans in mind from the over-arching themes from the time of Moses (the great hero of Samaritans) to specific vignettes of Samaritans. Helen, the consort, according to the enemies of Simon, had been picked out of a bordello in the city of Tyre. Mary and Jesus are leaning away from each other, with the negative space between them forming a ‘V’ or chalice shape. He also promised twenty-one years of grain. In addition there is the Logos theology absent in the Synoptics which one-ups the Gospel of Thomas whose theology is expressed more diffusely and complexly. This resulted in the demiurgic forces that rule the world and the human race which is trying to evolve beyond them. Eisenman explains that the name ‘Nakdimon’ is exactly equivalent to ‘Nicodemus’ and was interchangeably used in some sources. Nikon f5. the shape of a woman’s womb), Leonardo presented this in the painting. St. Mary Magdalene by Pietro Perugino Many little details and the conversation are remembered but her name isn’t? Jesus in The Chosen. In opposition to the ‘seeking’ mode of Thomas in speaking of soul travel and personal spiritual growth the Gospel of John affirms that all one needs to do is ‘believe’ in the Logos to be ‘saved’. The disciple Matthew was very closely related to Mary. One Mary or Two? Next, Nicodemus pops up in a fairly long section and is taught that one needs to be born of “water and the Spirit”. It would seem to make sense now, especially since many people including Christians assume that Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9 and John 12:1-8 are parallel passages with Luke 7:36-50. There are too many secrets in John that make the case that John is hiding things and make it legitimate to go on the treasure hunt to find out what they are. Mary Magdalene is a face of the Divine Feminine re-emergence. Learn more here. This leaves the impression that maybe she isn’t—which is exactly the Greek Orthodox position of today that the sister of Lazarus and the Magdalene were different people although many people hold to the ‘composite Mary’ hypothesis. Queen Helen, Izates, and Samacho are appropriately designated as spiritual siblings although not real ones. Matthew in The Chosen. The one I want to look at today is the choice of Mary Magdalene as the first witness to the resurrected Christ. A consensus of many scholars is that the Gospel of John (probably composed in the 90’s CE) was written as a response to the Gospel of Thomas of Syrian Bridal Chamber Christianity (probably composed after the Synoptics about 90 CE) since it deprecates the role of Thomas who is characterized as not believing until he places his hand in the wound of Jesus. Early in the 30’s CE after her son, Izates, had ascended the throne of his father she relocated with five grandchildren (here we have the number five again) to Jerusalem. The number obviously relates to the twenty-one years of Queen Helen’s Nazirite penances and her grain-buying during the great 44-46 drought period. But it strikes me that many in the institutional church continue to do the same today to women and LGBT persons. I. L. 141. This is followed by Jesus driving the money changers out of the Temple in making the point that the spirit opposes fundamentalist religion but also plays to the Samaritan hatred of the Jewish Temple cult which had historically destroyed the Samaritan Temple on Mt Gerizim several times. This interpretation has no basis in scripture. It is striking that Jesus dramatically makes his messianic declaration to the Woman: “I who speak to you am he” after the Messianic Secret ideology of the Gospel of Mark and the dynamic in Matthew and Luke where nobody understands Jesus. The Babylonian Talmud discusses a person named ‘Nakdimon ben Gurion’ who is fabulously rich and pious who filled the twenty-one Temple water cisterns during a time of drought. This is mostly for the fun of it… There has been a lot said about Mary Magdalene being the wife of Jesus. They are ripe for harvest….you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” (Jn 4: 31-38), The Gospel of Thomas in Saying 21 replays many themes allegorically as well. John depicts her as the primary witness to the most central events of Christian faith. The long and complex ‘Woman at the Well’ scene in John 4: 4-42 is reflective of Mary Magdalene and best defines her relationship to Jesus as will be shown below and is nestled in a book that could more accurately be called the Gospel of Mary rather than the Gospel of John since she plays a central role from beginning to end in the Gospel. Think about, today, how crazy a woman like Mary Magdalene might have sounded. Mary, he said, was the unnamed sinner woman with the alabaster jar who appears at Simon the Pharisee’s house to anoint Jesus’ feet. As NCR reported Monday, communities throughout the country offered special liturgies this weekend to honor Mary Magdalene, whose feast day was Sunday. Are Francis and Parolin playing good cop-bad cop on same-sex marriage? It is exceedingly odd as well that a leading disciple of Jesus, the Magdalene, who was the primary witness to the Resurrection in all four Gospel accounts also seemed to have some kind of unspoken but fallen past. The Woman leaves her “vessel” with Jesus to round up some of the town’s people. On the most basic level, Mary Magdalene was a woman who lived in the time of Jesus of Nazareth and was one of his most devout followers. This is very odd in light of his prominent role in that Gospel. As a probably secret but prominent disciple of John the Baptist and a sponsor of Simon it would not be surprising to see her officiating at the initiation of Jesus into the leadership of the Baptist movement as portrayed in Mark with oil on the head worth a year of a laborer’s wages. Instead, it’s been the question of whether Mary Magdalene and Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus are the same person. We will see why she loomed so large shortly. Mary Magdalene is the first to recognize the resurrected Christ. The last section preceding the Woman at the Well has the Baptist, again, witnessing to Jesus as the ‘Son’. This Samaritan group is really the first group of followers although many other disciples and witnesses of miracles are listed prior. This is an acknowledgement that the earliest followers as a group were actually Samaritans and that the Woman had a significant relationship to them. The next section is where Jesus turns water into wine which can be seen as a ‘living water’ Holy Spirit reference. The notion of Mary Magdalene specifically being a former prostitute or loose woman dates to a narrative by Pope Gregory I ("Gregory the Great") made in an influential homily in around 591, in which he not only identifies Magdalene with the anonymous sinner with the perfume in Luke's gospel and with Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, but also, for the first time, explicitly identifies her sins as … At Good Friday mass in 591, Pope Gregory I, also known as St. Gregory the Great, launched a campaign to redefine the legacy of Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene and the Samaritan woman are two of the finest examples of this Gospel paradox. The next time we see Mary she is at the foot of the Cross with the mother of Jesus, the aunt of Jesus, and “Mary the wife of Clopas”. Through Baptism, each of us is called to a life of faith, and service to the people of God. For its part, the Bible gave no hint that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’s wife. Jesus tells his disciples: “I have food to eat you know nothing about.” Of course, this is explained away by Jesus saying he was doing the will of God. Many have mistakenly identified her … In the 6 th century Pope Gregory the Great authoritatively pronounced that the sinful woman mentioned in Luke 7:36-50 was the same person as Mary Magdalene. The Samaritan woman is the first disciple to recognize Jesus as the promised Messiah, and her testimony brings him many followers in Samaria. ], Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor. For this reason we also kiss one another. Along with “The Woman at the Well”, “Mary” in the Lazarus scene, and “Mary Magdalene” at the Crucifixion and Empty Tomb scenes there are two more characters in John who also act as stand-ins for Queen Helen. This is John’s opportunity to discuss all the innuendo and rumor flying around the relationship between Simon and Helen. This would have given plenty of time for Queen Helen to associate with Simon-Jesus in the early 30’s though they could have had contact for a decade. Moses, the Samaritan hero, found his wife at a well in Midian when he chased off shepherds harassing the seven daughters of Jethro and watered the flock of the girls. She has also been made out to be the seductress of Jesus (for instance, the film The Last Temptation of Christ), Jesus’ wife (a myth debunked by Duke scholar Mark Goodacre—see note below), or a promiscuous woman. Clearly there is something going on here. As one of Jesus’ most faithful disciples, she has been inspiration for Women at the Well. Bonus: Imagining Mary Magdalene (5 More Bible Adaptations While You Wait for The Chosen Season 2) [10] The conflation of Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany and the woman in Luke 7 has formed the “composite Magdelene”, so-called by scholars. However, it was Queen Helen of Adiabene who sponsored and funded Simon who had the right as well as the political sway to demand of Pilate the body of Jesus. Jesus ends up going to the house of the youth, spending six days instructing him further, and where Jesus “remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom God”. The sister of Lazarus was obviously a disciple since she was described as sitting at the feet of Jesus. Another common opinion is that Mary Magdalene is the adulterous woman from John’s gospel. This is exactly the ancient image of a disciple—where you sit at the feet of your teacher. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him.” This ‘bubbling spring’ and this ‘drink from mouth’ are references to divine Wisdom or Sophia or the Holy Spirit. The name of ‘Arimathea’ is in the same pattern as ‘Adiabene’ and ‘Magdalene’. In 591 he pronounced that Mary Magdalene was the same person as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. Simon Magus reflected well this syzygy or co-creativity by not only channeling the Samaritan messiah but in affirming that his consort, Helen, channeled the fallen Sophia who had incarnated many times and once as Helen of Troy. And, if you do not believe but are just a seeker then you are condemned already. We are told a … Unfortunately for her legacy as first witness to the resurrection in John 20:11-18, Saint Mary Magdalene has … In this passage, Jesus is teaching in the Temple where he has amassed a large audience. No males are mentioned as standing nearby but Jesus hands over his mother to the care of the “disciple whom he loved” who took her to “his home”. In addition, Matthew (who is called by the Hebrew form of his name of ‘Levi’ as he is also in the Gospels) appears as a spiritual teacher of Mary in the allegorical ‘Joseph and Asenath’. If it’s not Mary Magdalene, then maybe Mary of Bethany is the one woman who came to Jesus remorseful for her sins while he was dining with the Pharisees. Mary anointed Jesus with oil, mixing her tears in. The woman appears in John 4:4–42, However below is John 4:4–26: . Christ's victory over death proclaims a second chance for all, pope says, After a year of COVID-19, we witness to the grace of paschal mystery, Son of Man, son of Krypton: DC film trilogy takes cues from Christ's passion, What Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' can teach Catholics, Easter Sunday: Putting on the mind of Christ, Priest, six others killed by armed gunmen at Nigerian parish, Pope grants 'time out' to German archbishop faulted over abuse, Long Island diocese sells headquarters amid bankruptcy, Pope approves pay cuts for top Vatican officials, clergy, Ex-altar boy alleges church covered up his abuse by bishop, Kansas bishop steps aside from duties as abuse allegation is investigated. When Simon-Jesus comments “the man you have now is not your husband” it can be seen to be a snickering comment about Simon-Jesus, himself. In addition, Peter, as a representative of Jewish Christianity is deprecated. The content of the saying is especially renunciate. It's been tough, though, to grasp her true story, since everyone from Pope Gregory in the sixth century to Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber in the 1970s has had us believe she was an adulterer and a repentant sinner. This may, somewhat, reflect Helen of Troy who was highly desired by men and had five husbands. John is focused, rather though, on co-opting the Samaritan communities who were overt followers of Simon Magus and his consort, Helen, according to Justin Martyr. Rather than celebrating the extraordinary gifts women have brought to the church throughout the ages, we are instead told that the female anatomy creates an insurmountable obstacle that prevents God from calling a woman to the priesthood. The non-canonical gospels hold that Jesus loved her the most and would kiss her often on the lips. Queen Helen was a big sponsor of the Temple and undertook three seven year periods of penance. As such, many women (and some men) are working with her as artists, academics, healers, feminists, Christian revisionists and priestesses. Eisenman quotes Rabbinic sources as explaining that ‘Nakdimon’ comes from a Hebrew root meaning ‘to pierce or break though’ like the sun does. Mary Magdalene stayed with Jesus through his suffering, and at the foot of the cross. That Mary Magdalene was a prostitute is just one of the many depictions of her put forward over the centuries. The identity of the sinful woman has not been the key obstacle to giving the Bethany family a spot on the calendar, though. People Women’s History She sat at his feet as a legitimate disciple. 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