Endnote 3 – How Mary Magdalene Became a Whore

Marna Warner, Alone of All Her Sex (New York: Knopf, 1976), pp. 225–232. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has rightly remarked that the post-New Testament distortion of the image of Mary Magdalene signals a deep distortion in the attitudes toward, and in the self-understanding and identity of, the Christian woman and man (“Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles,” Union Theological Seminary Journal [April, 1975], p. 5; Der Vergessener Partner [Düsseldorf, Ger.: Patmos Verlag, 1964], pp. 57–59). That distortion calls for precise documentation and correction by historians. See also Pheme Perkins, “‘I Have Seen the Lord’ (John 20:18): Women Witnesses to the Resurrection,” Interpretation 46 (1992), pp. 31–41.