Magdalene

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          Who Is Mary Magdalene?

          The first thing to note is her name: Mary Magdalene.Magdalene is not a last name. They didn’t have last names in first-century Jewish society, so what does this term mean?

          It helps if you look at the Greek behind it.

          In Matthew, Mark, and John, she is referred to as Maria hê Magdalênê or Mariam hê Magdalênê. These would be literally translated as “Mary the Magdalene”—so a Magdalene is a kind of person.

          The specific kind of person a Magdalene represents is someone from the fishing village of Magdala, which was a mostly Gentile town of about 40,000 people on the western side of the Sea of Galilee.

          So Mary was from Magdala in Galilee.

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          6. She is thus being referred to by a naming convention whereby you give the person’s name and place of origin—as in “Jesus of Nazareth” (Acts 10:38) or “Jesus the Nazarene” (Matt. 26:71).

          This place designation is not the most common way that women were referred to in first-century Palestinian Jewish culture.

          Men were