What are the nostic gospels

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pertaining to mary magdalane

Answer 1

They are 52 scrolls discovered in 1945.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...

The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene

http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.h...

Answer 2

It was a good book because it was plausable, not because it was true.

Brown is a fiction writter, not a historian.

Answer 3

Basically these gospels are the gospels excluded from the New Testament during & after the 4th Century when Christianity was formalized.

By the early 300's, all of the New Testament books were being used in the mainstream church body. In 367 AD, Athanasius formally circulated the Easter Letter that listed all 27 books as canonical. The Synod of Hippo (393 AD) and the third Synod of Carthage (397 AD) also recognized these 27 books as canonical. In addition, during this time, the highly influential church fathers, Jerome (340-420 AD) and Augustine (354-430 AD) published their lists of 27 books completing the New Testament.

I suppose Mary "could" have been the wife of Jesus, but that would just be subjective conjecture with no conclusive evidence.  We do know considerable effort was taken to prove Jesus a descendant of David & thus the heir to the throne of Juda. We do know she (Mary) was not a prostitute as portrayed by church leaders for centuries.