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Maria Magdalena would like to have a word with you.

• jfk13 5y ago
  Dan Brown and Nikos Kazantzakis are novelists, not historians.
  • efdee 5y ago
    Neither did they invent Maria Magdalena.
  • netcan 5y ago
    ...joining a long tradition of storytelling about this person.
    • wiredone 5y ago
      Have HN Gold my friend.
    • unknown_apostle 5y ago
      ...some of which claim to be eye witness accounts, being weirdly restrained in describing the highly miraculous, placing these miracles against a backdrop of great received wisdom and mundane details, all the while sounding as if they actually have the personal backgrounds, sources and motives they claim to have.
    • refurb 5y ago
      Sure but some stories are a little more reliable than others.
      • true_religion 5y ago
        I don’t know. The story that a charismatic 30 year old man has no sexual history is a story I find to be totally unreliable.
        • refurb 5y ago
      • netcan 5y ago
        Which do you consider reliable?
      • saiya-jin 5y ago
        Reliability requires some fact checking. Rather impossible in this case
        • refurb 5y ago
      • wonderwonder 5y ago
        especially the ones that talk about people performing magic...
  • 7952 5y ago
    Nor is the Bible reliable historical evidence.