#MeToo, 'Mary Magdalene' focus on women's stories in Bible as Easter nears

[MineralMan]

45. There is not even a single contemporaneous account of Jesus,

the crucifixion, the resurrection, or anything else. Everything was written after everyone who was supposed to have been with him was dead. Fragments of second and third-hand accounts by people who never knew the man, assuming that there was a man to know.

You mention the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. It is yet another example of something written about her, not by her. We have only a fragment of it, written a few hundred years after the fact. Why would anyone take that as a true account?

By then, it had all become a story, not an accurate account. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is a fragmentary account written long after she had died. It was not written by someone who knew her or who was there. There's no evidence of that at all.

I understand that you like the account and perhaps even believe it, but that's not evidence of its authenticity or importance.

If there ever were contemporaneous accounts of such events, they are long lost, leaving behind only storytelling. Who knows what is accurate and what is just a good story that supports belief?