Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared--and the one commissioned to tell others the good news, earning her the ancient honorific, "Apostle to the Apostles."
"Mary, called Magdalene" blends history and creativity to tell the story of Jesus Christ and Christianity's beginnings, all through the eyes of one of the Bible's most important women.
