lesa ([info]redegg) wrote,
@ 2006-02-01 09:39:00
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Woman With The Wild Thing's Heart: Part 1 of 4
The first installment of the Irish radio show for which I was interviewed is now available online.

Woman With The Wild Thing's Heart: "What's in a name?"

You need RealPlayer to listen to this file type, unfortunately.

Two clips of my interview were included; one where I spoke about the origin of the name "Magdalene" and one where I talked about Pope Gregory the Great's homily from 591.

The show itself is very good, and is very interesting for an Irish perspective on Mary Magdalene. Ireland, of course, is now known to be the place of the famous "Magdalene Laundries," institutions where "licentious" and otherwise troubled girls were sent for what amounted to prison sentences. The Irish experts are fantastic, and they even interviewed Susan Haskins for the show as well. So it's well worth a listen!



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[info]m7o7n7k
2006-02-01 05:58 pm UTC (link)
I just finished the first chapter of a purported history that is exploring the idea that Christianity is based on myths and fables cobled together from Pagan sources by a fourth century X-tian cleric. The name of the book excapes me (I am pre-morning coffee). The Jesus something or other... Sorry, short on details.

Anyway, have you read it?

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[info]redegg
2006-02-01 06:08 pm UTC (link)
I haven't read anything like that, but if you can post the title sometime, I'd like to check it out.

The first thing that comes to mind though is that we do have 2nd century papyrus fragments that contain portions of the gospels...that seems to argue against a 4th century origin. I would be interested in seeing how this author addresses questions of physical evidence.

I think I've also heard of a theory that Christianity is actually much *older* than the 1st century too, but I can't remember where I came across that idea...

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[info]toshibi
2006-02-02 12:19 pm UTC (link)
i just went and i'm getting a 404 error. that sucks.

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[info]brap_x
2006-02-02 05:10 pm UTC (link)
i got the same thing. you need to follow the link on the main page:
http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/latest/rte-womanwiththewildthingsheart.smil

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