MARY MAGDALENE: SAINT OR SINNER?
8pm FIVE - Tues 16th Sept 2008
11am FIVE - Sun 21st Sept 2008
Mary Magdalene’s vision of a risen Jesus was the spark that ignited the flame of Christianity, turning the Jesus Movement from a minor Jewish sect into a new world faith. Without her there may never have been Christianity.
Yet strangely, rather than celebrate her as a founder of the faith, the Gospels say almost nothing about her, the early Christian church branded her a whore and western art and literature have constantly reinvented her down the centuries. She remains one of the most mysterious women in history.
This programme goes in search of the real Mary Magdalene and asks whether all the conspiracy theories hide an even greater truth.
REVIEWS
“This absorbing documentary…” (Sunday Times)
“This intriguing documentary …” (Daily Express)
“The third of four solid, intelligent documentaries on biblical subjects …” (Daily Mail)
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