Mary Magdalene
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Published: April 30, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781841194035
Subjects: New Testament; Saints & hagiography
First sentence: Whatever else she may have been, Mary Magdalene was an outsider - someone who failed to fit in totally with the people and culture in which she found herself - and it is above all this air of social unacceptability that has made her an icon to generation upon generation of those who, for whatever reason, find themselves outside the prevailing moral climate.