Sasha Cooke as Mary Magdalene soothes Nathan Gunn as Yeshua (Jesus) in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.

Feminist scholars began writing about Mary Magdalene in the 1990s, more than a century after the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) was discovered in a Cairo marketplace.

“Finding Jesus” adviser and religious scholar Mark Goodacre answers your questions about Mary Magdalene.

The result, which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, is "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," a radical retelling of the biblical story of Jesus.

Mary Magdalene (Sasha Cooke), right, anoints Yeshua (Nathan Gunn) with oil, in a scene from San Francisco Opera's world premiere of Mark Adamo's "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," Sunday, June 16 ...

Now Adamo has finished a commission for the San Francisco Opera called “ The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.” It’s his version of the story of Jesus, his disciples and a woman whose role in the story has ...

When the San Francisco Opera premiered Mark Adamo’s opera, “The Gospel of Mary Magdalene,” on June 19th, there was some nervousness that the treatment would cause a backlash from those ...

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The result, which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, is ‘The Gospel of Mary Magdalene,’ a radical retelling of the biblical story of Jesus. It’s about as ...

San Francisco Opera is currently staging the world premiere of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" by composer-librettist Mark Adamo.