The Secret Magdalene: A Novel

Ki Longfellow

Mar 2007 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.

After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu’a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu’a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.

This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life-not as a prostitute or demon-possessed-but as an educated woman who was truly the “apostle to the apostles.”

Ratings and reviews

They turned her into a prostitute, she never was one. Jesus told her things and was close to her. If u read the Bible then u know Peter was upset because Jesus kissed her on the mouth. Well to me that sounds like a partner ship marriage maybe? Seriously he would of had to been married in that time. But no men turned her into nothing. This book brings her closer to her proper place. It's a nice story. I wish the Catholics wouldn't of changed so much. And they did change a lot.

About the author

Ki Longfellow is the author of China Blues, Chasing Women, and The Secret Magdalene. She lives in Vermont.