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As for the Wisdom who is called 'the barren,' she is the mother of the angels. And the companion of
[the saviour was Mar]y Ma[gda]lene. [Christ loved] M[ary] more than [all] the disci[ples, and used
to] kiss her [softly] on her [hand]. The rest of [the disciples were offended by it and expressed
disapproval]. They said to him "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Saviour 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.

The words in brackets denote where there are gaps in the text of this ancient manuscript due to it
suffering some decay over the centuries. Some others have translated this passage to read that Jesus
used to kiss Mary Magdalene on the lips. Whatever the missing words were, this is clearly a false and
heretical teaching. Other passages in this false Gospel identify without question that it was Mary
Magdalene who is being written of here, for she is called the “koinonos” of Christ, a word that is used
elsewhere in this writing to indicate a wife.

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 (koinonos) were
each a Mary.
[Source: ibid]

The Gospel of Philip uses cognates of koinônos and Coptic equivalents to refer to the literal pairing
of men and women in marriage and sexual intercourse, but also metaphorically, referring to a
spiritual partnership...
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Philip]

The Zohar is similarly a source of much deviant Biblical teaching. It is actually a set of books that
provide commentary on the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. Along with the text from
the Torah the Zohar supplies many mystical interpretations of the Scripture passages. The claimed
origin of this Kabbalist writing is one of intentional deception and false attribution.

The Zohar first appeared in Spain in the 13th century, and was published by a Jewish writer named
Moses de Leon. De Leon ascribed the work to Shimon bar Yochai ("Rashbi"), a rabbi of the 2nd
century during the Roman persecution who, according to Jewish legend, hid in a cave for thirteen
years studying the Torah and was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the Zohar...

Modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom
Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author. The view of non-Orthodox Jewish
denominations generally conforms to this latter view, and as such, most non-Orthodox Jews have
long viewed the Zohar as pseudepigraphy and apocrypha while sometimes accepting that its contents
may have meaning for modern Judaism.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar]

The fact that the Zohar was found by one lone individual, Moses de Leon, taken together with the
circumstance that it refers to historical events of the post-Talmudical period, caused the authenticity
of the work to be questioned from the outset. There is a story told about how after the death of Moses