Mary Magdalene In The Acts Of Philip

Abstract

“sister of Aaron.”1 A few Jewish texts of late antiquity and the Middle Ages merge the Virgin Mary with Mary Magdalene.2 Such connections were made possible and even attractive because of the similarity in names. First I would like to reflect on the several forms of the name Mary and then examine the persons of that same name. Miriam is the Hebrew name.3 It is applied to the sister of Aaron and Moses. The Septuagint regularly translates this name with Mariavm. Philo follows this usage,4 while Josephus never uses this term and instead calls the sister of Aaron and Moses Mariavmmh.5 The New Testament manuscripts do not witness the name Mariavmmh, preferring Mariavm or Mariva for Jesus’ mother, the woman from Magdala, and the several other Marys.6 We have,

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