I found this reading remarkably interesting. The most interesting thing to me was that the Gospel of Mary disappeared for over fifteen hundred years, with the first six pages being lost in addition to four pages in the middle of works. The Gospel rejected Jesus’ suffering and death as a path to eternal life, exposed the view that Mary of Magdala was a prostitute, prevents the most straightforward and convincing in any Christian writing for women’s leadership, and offered utopian view of religion. Our picture of this story will always be partial because we have lost the beginning of the story. We do not have a full Gospel to fall back on. The way we found the writings was such a small event. The owner did not even know he had them. The writings spent that much time in a wall niche. There was no way the writing could be in such good condition while living in the open air. The book was then purchased and sent to a European museum and examined. The Egyptian Christians are assumed to be the ones who were able to translate the Gospel. The writings turned out to be fifth-century papyrus codex. This was made by cutting papyrus rolls into sheets, which were then stacked and sewn together. The writing turned out to be 152 pages and placed inside a leather cover. The actual Gospel of Mary was short, only took up the first 18% of the book. The writing was found along the Nile in lower Egypt. It is now housed in the Ashmolean Library of Oxford, since it was published in 1983 by P.J. Parsons.