High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Secret Magdalene, American novelist and screenwriter Ki Longfellow`s third book, was first published in March 2005 by a small Vermont publishing company called Eio Books. A hardback edition was published by Random House in 2006, followed by a trade paperback edition published by Three Rivers Press, a Random House imprint, in December 2007. Translated into several languages, including Spanish, Czech, Chinese, French and Icelandic, The Secret Magdalene is an historical novel that challenges the traditional view of “historical” events chronicled in the New Testament, specifically the ministry of Jesus Christ and his relationship to Mary Magdalene. Told entirely in the first-person voice of Mariamne (Longfellow’s choice of name is based on Gnostic material found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt), this is a tale of Mariamne`s quest to understand the gnosis she experienced as a child. In The Secret Magdalene, the Magdalene is not a prostitute, a priestess, the Bride of Christ or the Holy Grail, but a philosopher, a teacher, an adviser, a prophet, and eventually the beloved companion of Yehoshua, the zealot from Galilee who chooses to accept the burden of Messiah out of a need to share his own gnosis with suffering humanity.