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It has been proposed that references to Jesus' relationship to Mary Magdalene in theGospel of Philiprepresent a possible context for an early gospel fragment in which Jesus refers to her as ‘My wife’. It will be argued here that Mary's relationship to Jesus inPhilipis determined by her role as privileged recipient of revelation, not by her marital status. More significant in accounting for the Jesus' Wife fragment is theGospel of Thomas, which the author appears to have known in precisely the text-form represented by the one surviving Coptic exemplar. |