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Celebrating Jesus’s female followers: Names of the Women, by Jeet Thayil, reviewed

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

Names of the Women Jeet Thayil

Cape, pp.192, 15.99

The gnostic Gospel of Mary has long been the subject of controversy, even as to which of the several Marys who feature in Jesus’s life was its author. It is generally assumed to have been Mary Magdalene, not least because it depicts her regular adversary, St Peter, refusing to credit a woman’s testimony.

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