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And she was very close to jesus, a soul mate of jesus. >> you can see the way the "galilean gazette" would have read. radical rabbi and disciples -- including women -- traveling throughout galilee teaching. oy! you know, this would not have gone down well at all in a conservative, patriarchal culture. ♪ >> other scholars say that the magdalene's high profile role would not have been surprising. >> the gospels demonstrate that women could appear in public and speak out in public, that women could travel on pilgrimage, for example, from the galilee down to jerusalem. that women owned their own...

And so, i would say that she was a working girl. >> while the virgin mary's home town of nazareth has become a shrine to her memory, mary magdalene's home is a neglected ruin. >> there's not much of magdala left. in fact, there's hardly anything left. there are the ruins of a sixth century byzantine monastery built there six centuries after mary magdalene's time. and they're very beautiful ruins. they're closed to the public. >> the magdalene's reputation is all the more surprising, given what the gospels tell us about who she really was. >> she was a beloved disciple. she might have been the ...

they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to god's request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. it's the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries and so on, from the moment mary gave birth. >> the other mary, called magdalene, is the bad mary. who was seized by demons. in ancient times, scholars say, her flaming red hair w...

in blockbuster movies and in best-selling books. and this, despite the fact that they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to god's request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. it's the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries and so on, from the moment mary gave birth. >> the other mary, called magdalene, is the bad mary....