mountainman
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In a lost book (4th century CE?) called "The Greater Questions of Mary",
Jesus has explicit sex, eats his semen in the presence of Mary,
who faints, is revived and then asked ... why she doubted. !!!
What might have motivated the author to write this?
Seriously, if we are to credit the account of Epiphanius, what motivated the author of "The Greater Questions of Mary"?
Any ideas out there ?
Background
There is, via Epiphanius [a registered heresiologist] a record in the writings of the gnostic heretics that depicts Jesus having explicit sex somewhere up a mountain, in the presence of Mary, with a woman whom he has pulled from his side. According to Bart Ehrman: "When he reached climax, he pulled out of her and consumed his own semen, telling Mary: "Thus must we do, that we may live." Mary, as one might understand, was shocked into unconsciousness."
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And ... - Bart D. Ehrman - Google Books
"Epiphanius wrote an eighty-chapter book attacking Christian heretics and the Gospels they used. In the course of his discussion he mentions a Gospel about Mary Magdalene that sounds very bizarre indeed. In this account, Epiphanius alleges, Jesus took Mary to the top of a mountain and then in her presence pulled a woman out from his side (much as Eve came forth from Adam) and began having sexual intercourse with her. When he reached climax, he pulled out of her and consumed his own semen, telling Mary: "Thus must we do, that we may live." Mary, as one might understand, was shocked into unconsciousness. Epiphanius called this alleged book "The Greater Questions of Mary".
Another source for Epiphanius discloses that the text continues ...
Jesus awakens her, raises her up, and announces: "O person of little faith, why did you doubt?"
Here is a link to the Panarion - Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book 1.
Part 26. Epiphanius Against the Gnostics, or Borborites
http://www.masseiana.org/panarion_bk1.htm#3
Jesus has explicit sex, eats his semen in the presence of Mary,
who faints, is revived and then asked ... why she doubted. !!!
What might have motivated the author to write this?
Seriously, if we are to credit the account of Epiphanius, what motivated the author of "The Greater Questions of Mary"?
Any ideas out there ?
Background
There is, via Epiphanius [a registered heresiologist] a record in the writings of the gnostic heretics that depicts Jesus having explicit sex somewhere up a mountain, in the presence of Mary, with a woman whom he has pulled from his side. According to Bart Ehrman: "When he reached climax, he pulled out of her and consumed his own semen, telling Mary: "Thus must we do, that we may live." Mary, as one might understand, was shocked into unconsciousness."
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And ... - Bart D. Ehrman - Google Books
"Epiphanius wrote an eighty-chapter book attacking Christian heretics and the Gospels they used. In the course of his discussion he mentions a Gospel about Mary Magdalene that sounds very bizarre indeed. In this account, Epiphanius alleges, Jesus took Mary to the top of a mountain and then in her presence pulled a woman out from his side (much as Eve came forth from Adam) and began having sexual intercourse with her. When he reached climax, he pulled out of her and consumed his own semen, telling Mary: "Thus must we do, that we may live." Mary, as one might understand, was shocked into unconsciousness. Epiphanius called this alleged book "The Greater Questions of Mary".
Another source for Epiphanius discloses that the text continues ...
Jesus awakens her, raises her up, and announces: "O person of little faith, why did you doubt?"
Here is a link to the Panarion - Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book 1.
Part 26. Epiphanius Against the Gnostics, or Borborites
http://www.masseiana.org/panarion_bk1.htm#3
8:1 And they too have lots of books. They publish certain 'Questions of Mary'; but others offer many books about the Ialdabaoth we spoke of, and in the name of Seth.34 They call others 'Apocalypses of Adam'35 and have ventured to compose other Gospels in the names of the disciples, and are not ashamed to say that our Saviour and Lord himself, Jesus Christ, revealed this obscenity.
8:2 For in the so-called 'Greater Questions of Mary'—there are also 'Lesser' ones forged by them—they claim that he reveals it to her after taking her aside on the mountain, praying, producing a woman from his side, beginning to have sex with her, and then partaking of his emission, if you please, to show that 'Thus we must do, that we may live.'
8:3 And when Mary was alarmed and fell to the ground, he raised her up and said to her, 'O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
8:2 For in the so-called 'Greater Questions of Mary'—there are also 'Lesser' ones forged by them—they claim that he reveals it to her after taking her aside on the mountain, praying, producing a woman from his side, beginning to have sex with her, and then partaking of his emission, if you please, to show that 'Thus we must do, that we may live.'
8:3 And when Mary was alarmed and fell to the ground, he raised her up and said to her, 'O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?