6.122: Was Jesus in love with Mary Magdalene?

Today, our theologians will answer the listener-submitted question, "Was Jesus in Love with Mary Magdalene?"

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Welcome to season six of Enter the Bible, a podcast where we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

Today, our theologians will answer the listener-submitted question, “Was Jesus in Love with Mary Magdalene?”

Guest Mary Hinkle Shore is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a former professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary. Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, Journal for Preachers, Word & World, and on Working Preacher. She lives in Brevard, North Carolina, and continues to be a frequent speaker at church events.

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Biblical books and passages mentioned

  • John 20

Topics, themes, figures, and books mentioned

  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • King James Version
  • Mary Magdalene
  • Mary of Bethany
  • Mary and Martha
  • Gnostic Gospels

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Mary Hinkle Shore

Mary Hinkle Shore is Provost and Dean of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. She had served as Associate Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary. Her publications include: ""Establishing Social Presence in Online Courses: Why and How,"" Theological Education 42/2 (2007): 91-100, ""Forgiveness in Film: Finding Truth and Reconciliation,"" Word & World, Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter 2007, and Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life (Augsburg, 2003, in the Lutheran Voices series). She is the co-author of New Proclamation, Series A 2007-08, Advent-Holy Week, (Fortress, 2007).

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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