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- Author
- Jean-Yves Leloup
- First published
- 2002
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Gnosticism, Commentaries, Gospel of Mary
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The Gospel of Mary is an early Christian text first discovered in 1896 in a fifth-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic. This Berlin Codex was purchased in Cairo by German diplomat Carl Reinhardt. Additional Greek fragments of the text were subsequently found amongst the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
Although the work is popularly known as the Gospel of Mary, it is not classified as a gospel by most scholars, who restrict the term "gospel" to texts "primarily focused on recounting the teachings and/or activities of Jesus during his adult life".