Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?

[alexiscurious]

A few days ago this article came out on the Huffington post:
Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene Is Fact, Not Fiction[bless and do not curse]|[bless and do not curse]Simcha Jacobovici

It states that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and that he even had a son with her. Some evidence to back up its claims are that:

1) The Bible never mentions Jesus being celibate
2) Mary Magdalene went to wash the naked dead corpse of Jesus to prepare it for burial, apparently Jewish culture permits that only family can do this
3) The gospels refer to Jesus as a rabbi, and apparently rabbis are married
4) An archaeological discovery outside Jerusalem found tombs. One of them had the Hebrew/Aramaic name "Jesus son of Joseph" scratched on its side, another "Maria," yet another -- "Yose" -- a nickname referred to in the Gospels as belonging to one of Jesus' brothers (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:55). A fourth ossuary was inscribed with the name "Matthew" and a fifth -- the only one in Greek -- with the name "Mariamene," a Greek version of "Mary" associated in all of Greek literature with one woman only -- Mary the Magdalene. Even more disturbing for Pauline Christians, a sixth inscribed ossuary -- apparently of a child -- had the name "Judah, son of Jesus" carved on it.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Sketcher]

Ah, yes. This man also believes that a party of Jews split off during the Exodus to settle Greece and became the Greeks. But that aside:

- The Bible never mentions Jesus as being married.
- The Bible never mentions any children Jesus would have sired. Such children would surely have been protected and quite possibly venerated by the early church if they had existed.
- If Mark 16:1 is an argument for Mary Magdalene being Jesus' wife, then what is the implication for Mary the mother of James and Salome? And what of Joseph of Arimathea?
- The language used in John 20:16 does not connotate a husband-wife relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. She didn't refer to him as her husband, she referred to him as her teacher. If they were husband and wife, she would clearly have referred to him as her husband. Imagine if you were married, you spouse dies, and rises again after three days! If it were my wife, I wouldn't call her by her professional title!
- Jesus and Mary were actually very common names in those times. There have been many artifacts mentioning someone named Jesus from those times that turned out to be fakes, as well as some that may be authentic. He not only has to prove authenticity, but that they mean what he thinks they mean. Which he clearly has had trouble doing before, having watched his TV show.
- Rabbis generally were married, but there was a sect of celibate Jews called the Essenes in those days. They too would have had their teachers.

 

[ViaCrucis]

A few days ago this article came out on the Huffington post:
Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene Is Fact, Not Fiction[bless and do not curse]|[bless and do not curse]Simcha Jacobovici

Simcha Jacobovici is the Giorgio A. Tsoukalos of biblical archeology.

None of the points raised are particularly interesting or particularly substantiated. While just about all Jewish men were expected to marry, there's nothing that would stop a Jewish man from remaining unmarried, and there's nothing historically in Jewish halakha that would have made being married a requirement to be called "teacher". The whole Lost Tomb of Jesus thing is just Simcha tooting his own horn since he was the one who directed the movie that makes that claim (the actual archeologists from 1980 who were involved in the dig called Simcha's film "nonsense"). Silence is not an argument, the Bible doesn't say Jesus wasn't left-handed, but to claim, based on that, that Jesus was left-handed would be stupid.

Given the importance marriage was in Jewish culture, and given that marriage and procreation have been almost as important in Christianity as it has been in Judaism, it would seem strange that no Christian writer, at any point in antiquity, ever addressed this. We would need to assume a rather massive coverup, and at that point we're entering into Dan Brown territory. And at that point we might as well start talking Area 51, that 911 "was an inside job", and the Illuminati. It's tin foil hat territory.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[South Bound]

A few days ago this article came out on the Huffington post:
Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene Is Fact, Not Fiction[bless and do not curse]|[bless and do not curse]Simcha Jacobovici

It states that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and that he even had a son with her. Some evidence to back up its claims are that:

1) The Bible never mentions Jesus being celibate
2) Mary Magdalene went to wash the naked dead corpse of Jesus to prepare it for burial, apparently Jewish culture permits that only family can do this
3) The gospels refer to Jesus as a rabbi, and apparently rabbis are married
4) An archaeological discovery outside Jerusalem found tombs. One of them had the Hebrew/Aramaic name "Jesus son of Joseph" scratched on its side, another "Maria," yet another -- "Yose" -- a nickname referred to in the Gospels as belonging to one of Jesus' brothers (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:55). A fourth ossuary was inscribed with the name "Matthew" and a fifth -- the only one in Greek -- with the name "Mariamene," a Greek version of "Mary" associated in all of Greek literature with one woman only -- Mary the Magdalene. Even more disturbing for Pauline Christians, a sixth inscribed ossuary -- apparently of a child -- had the name "Judah, son of Jesus" carved on it.

What are your thoughts?

My thoughts are who in the world would get their understanding of the Bible from the Huffington Post?

 

[ViaCrucis]

For what it's worth this wasn't an article on Huffington Post. It was a personal blog by Simcha Jacobovici on the HuffPo website.

It wasn't an article, it wasn't a journalistic piece of any sort.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[MissRowy]

For what its worth I would not take anything the Huffington Post says seriously...its good for entertainment but for actual fact I wouldnt trust the reliability.
And I also would be looking up any facts that the blog had stated to make sure they were accurate.

 

[lesliedellow]

If Jesus was married, it is not likely to be the sort of minor detail which would have escaped mention anywhere in the New Testament.

For that matter, when Mary Magdalene is mentioned, why is she never referred to as Jesus's wife? Jesus spent his childhood in Nazareth, and his adult abode seems to have been in Capernaum. Mary, on the other hand, was from one of the two Magdalas in ancient Israel (hence her name).