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Mary Magdalene, by Diane Wallis Taylor, is the story of the biblical friend and helper of Jesus and his mother told from a different perspective. I liked it. Taylor’s story starts with Mary as a young girl and presents her innocence Throughout the story Mary makes sense. Since we know what Mary is thinking we understand her reasons, her trauma, her family, and more. This version makes sense in a real world not just in a spiritual world.

I love that this Mary Magdalene is not the person of ‘traditional presentation’ that I grew up with. I actually kept expecting the prostitute version and when it did not happen I went to my Bible to verify whether my idea of her was correct or not and found no clear connection. This opened the door to a believable Taylor version of Mary. This is a fictional story but it is nice to know that it could have been, at least partially, Mary’s story. It made me think and check things out, and question my assumptions of her as a person. I like that.

Taylor has a way of telling her story simply and believably. Her words connected me to some of the biblical references to Mary Magdalene, especially towards the end, “after Jesus”. Showing Mary in more of a humble and servant light, which is very much how the scriptures portray her and softens her in contrast to the harder servant image tradition paints of her. I closed the cover of this story with the feeling that Mary Magdalene was a humble, woman with strength of character, honor, spirit and the heart of a servant who had overcome difficulties so extreme that she understood what Jesus was facing in his last hours and stood by him and his mother through the end and into the beginning of a new era. This is someone I would be pleased for my daughter to look up to and emulate spiritually. Thank you Diane Wallis Taylor for a new look at this amazing woman who was in Christ’s inner circle while he was on earth.

--as posted in Fiction411.com


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Mary Magdalene A Novel Diana Wallis Taylor 9780800720483 Books Reviews

Mary Magdalene by Diana Wallis Taylor is the first novel I have read by this author. Her novel tells the story of Mary Magdalene by giving a believable history of this biblical woman. Mary Magdalene is not just a new testament icon; she is a living, breathing woman who feels pain, thinks and loves. Yes, Diana fills in all the spaces the gospel writers left blank. Her novel is quite readable and her version of Mary Magdalene is human. Yes, come to think of it, saints can be human too.
This is a well told story of terrible suffering relieved. The Bible does not tell us much about Mary Magdalin, especially before Jesus freed her from the demons. This book does a good job of supplying a back story of disruption by the demons and the torture of possession. It shows the pain of Mary and those around her.
The part of the story that Mary spent with Jesus gives a wonderful taste of the excitement and hardship of following Jesus on his ministry journey. It gives you a glimpse of what it might have been like to be there for the good times, and the bad times of jJesus' three years of ministry.
The Biblical accounts are well told for the most part, but there are minor differences from my understanding so be sure to read the biblical accounts as well. I was glad that there were no big changes made for the sake of excitement as in many Bible based movies. I personally believe that it is impossible to improve on God's story.
I would recommend this book for the wonder of living through the times of Jesus. It does have some dark places as you would expect from a story that includes demon possession and crucifiction. It is not a story for children. It is a story for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to live in the time of Jesus.
Very well written. Although written as a novel, it was an excellent study of Mary Magdalene, the one from whom Jesus had cast out seven demons and recorded in the Bible as the first person to see the risen Jesus. "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept." (Mark 169-10).

The fact that women were the first to visit the tomb and a woman was the first person to see the risen Jesus is evidence that the Biblical account is not fiction, because if it was fiction the writers would have chosen someone other than women to be witnesses. At that time in Jewish history, a woman's witness was not worth anything.

As I read the novel, I checked Biblical accounts for accuracy. I learned quite a bit about Mary Magdalene as a result of reading the novel. The only thing that bothered me a little was it appeared that Jesus ascended to Heaven after visiting with the Disciples the one time. Actually He was on earth and seen by some 500 different people over a 40 day period before ascending to Heaven.
A wonderful subject. However this book truly needs the help of an editor. The plot plodded along, very very very slowly. The character development was completely missing. Why would a man want his daughter to learn the Torah? Why would a man smart enough to run his own business arrange for dumb and dumber to kidnap his niece? The author goes into *excruciating* detail about the food, ingredients and preparation. This book is a novel, not a cookbook. The detail doesn’t help the central story. But the worst part of the book are the endless, endless, endless quotations from the Gospels. I hoped to hear what the author thought Jesus said that wasn’t in the Bible. This felt much more like a writing exercise, a very preliminary first draft than a published novel.

My mother once stated that “God reaches different people in different ways.” This novel did not reach me spiritually and I cannot seriously consider it as a literary offering in its present form.
Mary Magdalene, by Diane Wallis Taylor, is the story of the biblical friend and helper of Jesus and his mother told from a different perspective. I liked it. Taylor’s story starts with Mary as a young girl and presents her innocence Throughout the story Mary makes sense. Since we know what Mary is thinking we understand her reasons, her trauma, her family, and more. This version makes sense in a real world not just in a spiritual world.

I love that this Mary Magdalene is not the person of ‘traditional presentation’ that I grew up with. I actually kept expecting the prostitute version and when it did not happen I went to my Bible to verify whether my idea of her was correct or not and found no clear connection. This opened the door to a believable Taylor version of Mary. This is a fictional story but it is nice to know that it could have been, at least partially, Mary’s story. It made me think and check things out, and question my assumptions of her as a person. I like that.

Taylor has a way of telling her story simply and believably. Her words connected me to some of the biblical references to Mary Magdalene, especially towards the end, “after Jesus”. Showing Mary in more of a humble and servant light, which is very much how the scriptures portray her and softens her in contrast to the harder servant image tradition paints of her. I closed the cover of this story with the feeling that Mary Magdalene was a humble, woman with strength of character, honor, spirit and the heart of a servant who had overcome difficulties so extreme that she understood what Jesus was facing in his last hours and stood by him and his mother through the end and into the beginning of a new era. This is someone I would be pleased for my daughter to look up to and emulate spiritually. Thank you Diane Wallis Taylor for a new look at this amazing woman who was in Christ’s inner circle while he was on earth.

--as posted in Fiction411.com