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Was Mary Magdalene married to Jesus?
According to the Talmud, sexual intercourse satisfies the requirement for marriage.Good question.
I don't think they were officially married, but they might have been lovers.
Possibly. (It seems unlikely for a Rabbi of his age to be unmarried. The Talmud recommends marriage between the ages of 16 and 24)
Tradition holds that an unmarried Rabbi is unnatural, and would surely have been a point of contention with the Pharisees and Sanhedrin Jesus debated with.
But not according to the accepted Christian gospels.
fallingblood said:Rabbi's, as the Talmud speaks of, didn't really come around until after Jesus died. The rise of Rabbi's with Rabbinical Judaism came about after the destruction of the Temple. So one has to be careful while using the Talmud for the time period of Jesus.
Gospel of Philip said:There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary.
Gospel of Philip said:As for the Wisdom who is called "the barren," she is the mother of the angels. And the companion of the [...] Mary Magdalene. [...] loved her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often on her mouth.
Gospel of Philip said:The rest of the disciples [...]. They said to him "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior answered and said to them,"Why do I not love you like her? When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness."
Gospel of Mary said:Peter said to Mary, "Sister, we know that the Savior loved you more than other women. Tell us the words of the Savior which you have in mind since you know them; and we do not, nor have we heard of them."
Levi answered and said to Peter, "Peter, you are always irate. Now I see that you are contending against the woman like the adversaries. But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you to reject her? Surely the Savior knew her very well. For this reason he loved her more than us. And we should rather be ashamed and put on the Perfect Man, to form us [?] as he commanded us, and proclaim the gospel, without publishing a further commandment or a further law than the one which the Savior spoke." When Levi had said this, they began to go out in order to proclaim him and preach him.
There are no record of Jesus being married in the Bible.
Of course ...Traces of the Oral Torah can be found in literature that were written in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha (such as the Book of Jubilees and the books of Enoch), and of course, in the Dead Sea Scrolls.