Mary Defined through history.

The Magdalene still framed in mystery,

Mary Magdalene has the potential to lead us, expose gender bias and ideology as we re-evaluate the evidence without discarding what reliable texts offer for the reconstruction of women's 'real life' experience. Her very presence as a a biblical women we can contemplate, raises the levels of self-direction, involvement, and influence enjoyed by women in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and today.