I came across this video of a presentation I gave some years ago on this topic. I really should keep track of this stuff. Had a full beard then. The point of the presentation is to show that Gnostic gospels (the “real Bible” to conspiracists and Dan Brown fans) does not have a single line indicating Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, or that they had a romantic/sexual relationship. It’s bunk (at least if we take the Gnostics for our source).
Michael Heiser: Gnosticism (part 3) – “Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene Married?” from Guy Malone on Vimeo.
Um, Mike, just so you, Jesus is Mary Magdelene’s BFF. It’s true, I read it in my Dan Brown autographed copy of the Pseudepigrapha, the one which he personally, and, might I add, painstakingly translated. Stunning piece of scholarship. Whether or not it constitutes an extra-Biblical basis for Jesus’conjugal relations, I breathlessly await Mr Brown’ next book for the answer. In the mean time, I will return to my self directed study of the Targums for the secret codes that contain evidence that Jesus and the disciples ate kosher 1st century gummy bears.
Speaking of which , do you mind at all If share some vids of your lectures on youtube . I don’t know if someone holds copyright on them , I’m assuming somone does .
as far as I know, they are fair game.
Off topic here but what do you make of this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1313946/Biblical-tale-Moses-parting-Red-Sea-really-happened.html
The archaeologist in me thinks this is a bit of unprovable wishful thinking but I was interested that they claim the event ‘matches the account’. I am assuming none of them is a biblical scholar. What do you think?
The Nile Delta area is precisely the way that the biblical text has God *forbidding* Moses to go (= “the Way of the Philistines” = the coastline; see Exod 13:17).