**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Inside this accessible reading edition, you will explore: • The surviving Gospel of Mary in clear modern English • Mary’s teachings about matter, sin, desire, and spiritual freedom • Her mysterious vision and the soul’s ascent through hostile powers • Peter’s challenge, Mary’s tears, and Levi’s powerful defense • What the manuscript’s missing pages allow us to know and what they do not • The differences between the historical Mary Magdalene and her later portraits • Mary’s appearances in the Gospel of Philip and Pistis Sophia • What the evidence says about claims that Mary was Jesus’s companion or wife • Women’s authority, revelation, salvation, and “Gnostic” Christianity • How Mary became remembered as a penitent, preacher, visionary, and “apostle to the apostles” A LOST GOSPEL. DISCOVER WHAT THE SURVIVING GOSPEL OF MARY ACTUALLY REVEALS. A CONTESTED VOICE. A WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO LET FEAR HAVE THE FINAL WORD.