Ep 19: Mary Magdalene Within the New Testament Gospels: The Gospel of Luke

It’s believed that Mary Magdalene was indeed from a wealthy family and although in a patriarchal society it was rare for a woman to have wealth MM seems to be the ‘rebel’ of the feminist of her time where she was able to access wealth and use it as she pleased.

Because of this it’s believed that this is why she was labeled the whore not because she was a prostitute literally as we understand it, but because she did not follow the norms of what women where doing in her time… she was loose… and did not have a male guardian as all other women where expected to have.