| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - While there are erotic elements in the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene in John, chapter 20 (where she makes an attempt to embrace him and he says, ???Do not touch or hold me???), and in some apocryphal works (notably the Gospel of Philip), the erotic in these texts is an aspect of mysticism, evocative of the intimacy of sharing spiritual knowledge.
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