Note: Each of the four gospels tells a story of Mary Magdalene, and she is also mentioned in gnostic gospels from the following century that were not included in the Bible. It is recommended that for your base text you pick Luke's gospel, since he copies Mark but makes some significant adjustments to the portrait of her that betray some of his social circumstances and theological interests. Another good gospel to choose, particularly if you're interested in the later gnostic gospels, is the Gospel of John, which has the most extensive section on Mary as the first witness of the resurrection (she actually meets and talks with Jesus in this gospel). The suggestions for resources below presume Luke or John as your base text.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina 3. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1991.
Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina 4. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1998.
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Bieringer, Reimund. "Mary Magdalene in the Four Gospels." Louvain Studies 32:3 (2007) 186-254
D'Angelo, Mary Rose. "Reconstructing 'Real' Women in Gospel Literature: The Case of Mary Magdalene." In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 105-128.
--------. "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts." In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 171-95.
Meyer, Marvin W. "Whom Did Jesus Love Most?: Beloved Disciples in John and Other Gospels." In The Legacy of John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed. Tuomas Rasimus; Boston: Brill, 2010) 73-91.
O'Collins, Gerald. "Mary Magdalene as Major Witness to Jesus' Resurrection." Theological Studies 48:4 (1987) 631-46.
Schaberg, Jane D. and Sharon H. Ringe. "The Gospel of Luke." In Women's Bible Commentary (ed. Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe and Jacqueline E. Lapsley; 3rd ed.; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012) 493-511.
Seim, Turid Karlsen. "Roles of Women in the Gospel of John." In Aspects on the Johannine Literature: Papers Presented at a Conference of Scandinavian New Testament Exegetes at Uppsala, June 1986 (ed. Lars Hartman and Birger Olsson; Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987) 56-73.
Wilson, Brittany E. "Mary Magdalene and Her Interpreters." In Women's Bible Commentary (ed. Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe and Jacqueline E. Lapsley; 3rd ed.; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012) 512-16.
MacRae, George W. and R. McL. Wilson, trans. "Gospel of Mary BG 8502,I," introduction by Karen L. King, ed. Douglas M. Parrott. In The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd rev. ed. (ed. James M. Robinson; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990; original Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978) 523-7.
Gospel of Philip (II, 3)
Isenberg, Wesley W., trans. "Gospel of Philip (II.3)." In The Nag Hammadi Library inEnglish, 3rd rev. ed. (ed. James M. Robinson; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990; original Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978) 139-60.
Gospel of Thomas (II,2, logion 114)
Lambdin, Thomas O., trans. "Gospel of Thomas (II.2)," introduction by Helmut Koester. In The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd rev. ed. (ed. James M. Robinson; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990; original Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978) 124-38.
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King, Karen L., ed. Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2000; original Minneapolis: Augsbur Fortressg, 1990.
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Beavis, Mary Ann and Ally Kateusz, eds. Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam, Library of New Testament Studies, Scriptural Traces. New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen. "An Interpretation of Logion 114 in The Gospel of Thomas." Novum Testamentum 27:3 (1985) 245-72.
King, Karen L. "Canonization and Marginalization: Mary of Magdala." In The Postcolonial Biblical Reader (ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2006) 284-90. Originally published in Women's Sacred Scriptures (ed. Kwok Pui-lan and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1998) 29-36.
--------. "Gender Contestation as Political Critique: Four Cases from Ancient Christianity." In Doing Gender—Doing Religion: Fallsudien zur Intersektionalität im frühen Judentum, Christentum und Islam (ed. Ute E. Eisen, Christine Gerber and Angela Standhartinger; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013) 75-98.
--------. "The Place of the Gospel of Philip in the Context of Early Christian Claims about Jesus' Marital Status." New Testament Studies 59:4 (2013) 565-87.
--------. "Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)." In Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity (ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 21-41.
Landman, Christina. "The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) and the Embodiment of Wisdom." Acta patristica et byzantina 14 (2003) 176-85.
Marjanen, Antti. "How Egalitarian was the Gnostic View of Women?: Mary Magdalene Texts in the Nag Hammadi and Related Documents." In Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden, August 27-September 2, 2000 (ed. Mat Immerzeel and Jacques van der Vliet; Levuen: Peeters, 2004) 779-91.
Giotto di Bondone. Noli me tangere. 1304–1306. Fresco. 185 x 200 cm. Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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Beck, Eleonora M. "Justice and Music in Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes." Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography 29:1/2 (2004) 38-51.
Denny, Don. "Some Symbols in the Arena Chapel Frescoes." Art Bulletin 55 (1973) 205-212.
Fleck, Cathleen A. "The Rise of the Court Artist: Cavallini and Giotto in Fourteenth-Century Naples." Art History 31:4 (2008) 460-83.
Flora, Holly. "Giotto's O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel./The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua./Giotto and the Arena Chapel: Art, Architecture and Experience." Studies in Iconography 32 (2011) 207-213.
Jacobus, Laura L. "'Propria Figura': The Advent of Facsimile Portraiture in Italian Art." Art Bulletin 99:2 (2017) 72-101.
Ladis, Andrew. "The Legend of Giotto's Wit and the Arena Chapel." Art Bulletin 68 (1986) 581-96.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. "Giotto's First Biblical Subject in the Arena Chapel." American Journal of Archaeology 17 (1913) 201-205.
Pardo, Mary. "Giotto and the Things Not Seen, Hidden in the Shadow of Natural Ones." Artibus et Historiae 18:36 (1997) 41-53.
Schwarz, Michael Viktor1. "Padua, Its Arena and the Arena Chapel: A Liturgical Ensemble." Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, vol. 73, Aug. 2010, pp. 39-64.
Traditions of the Magdalene's Preaching in Southern France
Primary Text Citation
Master of the Magdalene Legend. Mary Preaching. c. 1500–1520. Oil on panel. 48 3/8 x 30 3/16. John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mode
Benay, Erin E. and Lisa M. Rafanelli. Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas, Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
[A section deals with pilgrimage; use the index to find that.]
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Apostolos-Cappadona, Diana. "From Apostola Apostolorum to Provençal Evangelist: On the Evolution of a Medieval Motif for Mary Magdalene." In Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles (ed. Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh; New York: Routledge, 2014) 163-80.
Beavis, Mary Ann. "The Cathar Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine: Pop Culture Legend vs. Medieval Doctrine." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 24:3 (2012).
Blamires, Alcuin. "Women and Preaching in Medieval Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Saints' Lives." Viator 26 (1995) 135-52..
Fedele, Anna. "From Christian Religion to Feminist Spirituality: Mary Magdalene Pilgrimages to La Sainte-Baume, France." Culture and Religion 10:3 (2009) 243-61.
--------. "Gender, Sexuality and Religious Critique among Mary Magdalene Pilgrims in Southern France." In Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage (ed. Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2012) 55-69.
--------. Looking for Mary Magdalene: Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France, Oxford Ritual Studies Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hayes, Alan L. "The Pilgrimage Sites of St. Mary Magdalene in Provence: August 2009 and May 2010." Anglican and Episcopal History 79:4 (2010) 406-415.
Mary as the First Easter Preacher in European Passion Plays
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Loewen, Peter Victor and Robin Waugh. "Mary Magdalene Preaches through Song: Feminine Expression in the Shrewsbury Officium Resurrectionis and in Easter Dramas from the German Lands and Bohemia." Speculum 82:3 (2007) 595-641.
Penitent Magdalene, Donatello (1453–1455)
Primary Text Citation
Donatello. Noli me tangere. 1453-1455. Wood. 188 cm. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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The Digby Mary Magdalene
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Bodleian MS Digby 133.
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Bennett, Jacob. "The Meaning of the Digby ‘Mary Magdalen.’" Studies in Philology 101:1 (2004) 38-47.
Boehnen, Scott. "The Aesthetics of ‘Sprawling’ Drama: The Digby Mary Magdalene as Pilgrims’ Play." Journal of English & Germanic Philology 98:3 (1999) 325-352.
Carter, Susan. "The Digby Mary Magdalen: Constructing the Apostola Apostolorum." Studies in Philology 106:4 (2009) 402-419.
Coletti, Theresa. "Curtesy Doth It Yow Lere”: The Sociology of Transgression in the Digby Mary Magdalene." ELH 71:1 (2004) 1-28.
--------. "The Design of the Digby Play of Mary Magdalene." Studies in Philology 76:4 (1979) 313-333.
--------. Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England, Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
--------. "Paupertas est donum Dei: Hagiography, Lay Religion, and the Economics of Salvation in the Digby Mary Magdalene." Speculum 76:2 (2001) 337-78.
Craymer, Suzanne L. "Margery Kempe's Imitation of Mary Magdalene and the 'Digby Plays.'" Mystics Quarterly 19:4 (1993) 173-81.
Davis, Matthew Evan. "As Above, so Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene." Theatre Notebook 70:2 (2016) 74-108.
Dixon, Mimi Still. "'Thys Body of Mary': 'Gemynyte' and 'Inward Mythe' in the 'Digby Mary Magdalene.'" Mediaevalia 18:1995 (1995) 221-45.
Dugan, Holly. "Scent of a Woman: Performing the Politics of Smell in Late Medieval and Early Modern England." Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies 38:2 (2008) 229-252.
Findon, Joanne. Lady, Hero, Saint: The Digby Play’s Mary Magdalene. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2011.
--------. "Mary Magdalene as New Custance? “The Woman Cast Adrift” in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play." English Studies in Canada 32:4 (2006) 25-50.
--------. "'Now is aloft Þat late was ondyr!': Enclosure, Liberation, and Spatial Semantics in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play." In Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles (ed. Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh; New York: Routledge, 2014) 247-57.
Grantley, Darryll. "The Source of the Digby Mary Magdalen." Notes & Queries 31 (1984) 457-459.
Maltmann, Nicholas Sister. "Light in and on the Digby Mary Magdalene." In Saints, Scholars, and Heroes (Hill Monastic MS Lib, St. John’s Abbey University, 1979) 257-280.
Mead, Stephen X. "Four-Fold Allegory in the Digby Mary Magdalene." Renascence 43 (1991) 269-282.
Milner, Susannah. "Flesh and Food: The Function of Female Asceticism in the Digby Mary Magdalene." Philological Quarterly 73:4 (1994) 385-401.
Mitchell-Buck, Heather S. "Tyrants, Tudors, and the Digby Mary Magdalen." Comparative Drama 48:3 (2014) 241-259.
Scherb, Victor I. "Blasphemy and the Grotesque in the Digby Mary Magdalene." Studies in Philology 96:3 (1999) 225-40.
--------. "Worldly and Sacred Messengers in the Digby Mary Magdalene." English Studies 73:1 (1992) 1-9.
Smith, D. K. "To Passe the See in Short Space”: Mapping the World in the Digby Mary Magdalen." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 18 (2005) 193-214.
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Tilman Riemenschneider (1490)
Primary Text Citation
Reimenschneider, Tilman. The Assumption of Mary Magdalene. c. 1490. Basswood. 190.6 x 50 x 35 cm (Mary alone). Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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L'Ultima Cena [The Last Supper], Leonardo da Vinci (1490s)
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da Vinci, Leonardo. L'Ultima Cena [The Last Supper]. 1490s. Tempera, gesso on plaster (fresco). 460 x 880 cm. Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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Douglas, Elizabeth A. "Leonardo's Last Supper: Some Issues of Interpretation." Christian Scholar's Review 18:1 (1988) 65-80.
Brachert, Thomas. "Musical Canon of Proportion in Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper." Art Bulletin 53 (1971) 461-466.
Polzer, Joseph. "Reflections on Leonardo's Last Supper." Artibus et Historiae 32:63 (2011) 9-37.
Wasserman, Jack. "Rethinking Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Last Supper.'" Artibus et Historiae 28:55 (2007) 23-35.
Noli me tangere, Titian (1514)
Primary Text Citation
Titian. Noli me tangere. 1514. Oil on canvas. 110.5 x 91.9 cm. National Gallery, London, England.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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Benay, Erin E. and Lisa M. Rafanelli. Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas, Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
Waters, Sonia. "Desired, Repeated, Replaced: Power and Loss in Titian's Noli Me Tangere." Pastoral Psychology 60:3 (2011) 409-420.
Saint Mary Magdalene, Quentin Massys (1520–1530)
Primary Text Citation
Massys, Quentin. Saint Mary Magdalene. 1520–1530. Oil on panel. 31.1 x 21.3 cm. Companion to John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States\.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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Griffith-Jones, Robin. Mary Magdalene: The Woman Whom Jesus Loved. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2008).
Hand, John Oliver, Catherine Metzger and Ron Spronk. Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych. Washington, D.C./Antwerp: National Gallery of Art/Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, in associtation with Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 2006.
Noli me tangere, Hans Holbein (1526-1528?)
Primary Text Citation
Holbein, Hans. Noli me tangere. 1526-1528?. Oil on oak. 76.8 x 94.9 cm. Hampton Court Palace, London, England.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
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Fletcher, John and M. C. Tapper. "Hans Holbein the Younger at Antwerp and in England, 1526-28." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 117 (1983) 87-93.
Katsanis, Bobbi Dykema. "Meeting in the Garden: Intertextuality with the Song of Songs in Holbein's Noli me tangere." Interpretation 61:4 (2007) 402-416.
Pemberton-Pigott, Viola. "Holbein's Noli me tangere: 'So Much Reverence Expressed in Picture.'" Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 155:486 (2002) 34-9.
Penitent Magdalene, Titian (c.1531)
Primary Text Citation
Titian. Penitent Magdalene. c.1531. Oil on canvas. 85 x 68 cm. Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy.
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Erhardt, Michelle A. and Amy M. Morris. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston: Brill, 2012.
Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh. "Vittoria Colonna and Titian's Pitti Magdalen." Woman's Art Journal 24:1 (2003) 29-33.
Hornik, Heidi J. "The Invention and Development of the 'Secular' Mary Magdalene in Late Renaissance Florentine Painting." In Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles (ed. Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh; New York: Routledge, 2014) 75-96.
--------. "Recasting the Magdalene in Sixteenth-Century Florence: The Painting Workshop of Michele Tosini." In From the Margins, vol. 2, Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (ed. Christine Joynes and Chrisopher C. Rowland; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009) 80-93. Revised and published in Hornik's book, Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence (Eastbourne, Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2009) 104-110, notes 189-90.
Hornik, Heidi J. and Mikeal C. Parsons. Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting, 2 vols. New York: T & T Clark International, 2005.
The King of Kings, dir. Cecil B. DeMille (1927)
Primary Text Citation
The King of Kings. Produced and directed by Cecil B. De Mille. 112 min. DeMille Pictures Corporation, 1927. [format you watched it in].
Telford, William R. "Jesus and Women in Fiction and Film." In Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (ed. Ingrid R. Kitzberger; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 353-91.
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Jesus Christ Superstar, dir. Norman Jewison (1973)
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Jesus Christ Superstar. Prod. Norman Jewison and Robert Stigwood; dir. Norman Jewison. 108 min. Universal Pictures, 1973. [format you watched it in].
Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Jesus Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar and
Godspell." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed &
Ward, 1997) 33-47, 248-52.
Goodacre, Mark. "Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar." Journal of Religion and Film 3:2 (1999). Online, http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/jesuscss2.htm.
Baugh, Lloyd. "The
Scandal Films: The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ." In
Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture
and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 48-71, 252-61.
Kennedy, Tammie. "(Re)presenting Mary Magdalene: A Feminist Reading of The Last Temptation of Christ." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 9 (2005).
Medhurst, Martin J. "Temptation as Taboo: A Psychorhetorical Reading of The Last
Temptation of Christ." In The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on
Film (ed. David Blakesley; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) 55-
67.
Schaberg, Jane. "Fast Forwarding to the Magdalene." Semeia 74 (1996) 33-45.
Snee, Brian J. "The Spirit and the Flesh: The Rhetorical Nature of The Last Temptation
of Christ." Journal of Media & Religion 4:1 (2005) 45-61.
Telford, William R. "Jesus and Women in Fiction and Film." In Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (ed. Ingrid R. Kitzberger; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 353-91.
Wright, Melanie Jane. "The Celluloid Brother: Imag(in)ing Woman in The Last Temptation of Christ." In From the Margins, vol. 2, Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (ed. Christine E. Joynes and Christopher Rowland; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009) 67-79.
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Lacayo, Richard, Brooke Masters and James Willwerth. "Days of Ire and Brimstone: A New Film about Jesus Christ Raises a Storm of Protest." Time 132:4 (25 July 1988) 73.
The Da Vinci Code, dir. Ron Howard (2006)
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The Da Vinci Code. Prod. Dan Brown and Todd Hallowell; dir. Ron Howard. 149 min. Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Skylark Productions, 2006. [format you watched it in].
Bock, Darrell L. Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking. Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson, 2005.
Ehrman, Bart D. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Kennedy, Tammie M. "Mary Magdalene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code." Feminist Formations 24:2 (2012) 120-40.
Koyzis, Nancy Calvert. "Re-sexualizing the Magdalene: Dan Brown's Misuse of Early Christian Documents in The Da Vinci Code." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 12 (2006). Online.
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Dyer, Anne. "The Da Vinci Code" Anvil 21:4 (2004) 241-3.
Jones, Christopher Prestige. "The Jesus' Wife Papyrus in the History of Forgery." New Testament Studies 61:3 (2015) 368-78.
Vaughn, Andrew G. and Chris A. Rollston. "The Antiquities Market, Sensationalized Textual Data, and Modern Forgeries." Near Eastern Archaeology 68:1-2 (2005) 61-5.
Kim, David W. "Reconsidering the Gospel of Jesus' Wife: An Imperfect Forgery or Another Polemical Gospel Fragment." Religious Studies and Theology 34:1 (2015) 19-40.
Nir, Rivka. "The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene." Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 14:3 (2016) 296-305.
Yardley, James T. and Alexis Hagadorn. "Characterization of the Chemical Nature of the Black Ink in the Manuscript of The Gospel of Jesus's Wife through Micro-Raman Spectroscopy." Harvard Theological Review 107:2 (2014) 162-64. Online, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=
online&aid=9226243, accessed [add your access date].
Watson, Francis. "Inventing Jesus' Wife," rev. The Bible and Interpretation: Blog (27 September 2012). Online, http://bibleinterp.com/articles/wat368023.shtml, accessed [add your access date].
Mary Magdalene. Prod. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Liz Watts; dir. Garth Davis. x min. See-Saw Films, Porchlight Films, 2018. [format you watched it in].
Telford, William R. "Jesus and Women in Fiction and Film." In Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (ed. Ingrid R. Kitzberger; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 353-91.
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Gnostic Gospels mentioning Mary Magdalene
Noli me tangere, Giotto di Bondone (1304–1306)
Traditions of the Magdalene's Preaching in Southern France
Mary as the First Easter Preacher in European Passion Plays
Penitent Magdalene, Donatello (1453–1455)
The Digby Mary Magdalene
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Tilman Riemenschneider (1490)
L'Ultima Cena [The Last Supper], Leonardo da Vinci (1490s)
Noli me tangere, Titian (1514)
Saint Mary Magdalene, Quentin Massys (1520–1530)
Noli me tangere, Hans Holbein (1526-1528?)
Penitent Magdalene, Titian 