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Maggy Whitehouse (born 1956) is an Independent Sacramental priest, a stand-up comedian, a broadcaster and an author and specialist in Judaeo-Christian mysticism, particularly Bible interpretation for interfaith.
She is a radio presenter and former BBC journalist, a travel documentary presenter and producer for Carlton TV, has acted as host moderator for BBC's Religion and Ethics message boards and was producer of BBC's now defunct holistic health and spirituality website. bbc.co.uk BBC home, 360 - Changing the World by Degrees, The Johannesburg Earth Summit is over - so now what?, author Maggie W, 11 September 2002, Retrieved 16 September 2010.
Whitehouse is the author of books on Judaism, Christianity and faith, including four on the Judaic mystical system known as Kabbalah. She was co-founder and Consultant Editor of the holistic magazine Tree of Life.http://www.treeoflifemagazine.com, Tree of Life, Autumn 2010, Kabbalah and Healing, Maggie Whitehouse, Retrieved 16 September 2010.
Whitehouse is also literary agent for the British novelist Norah Lofts.
Her latest book is A Woman's Worth, The Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible.
Whitehouse's 2007 book The Marriage of Jesus explored the social and economic times in which Jesus lived. Her theory is that Jesus would have married, like any other young man of his times, at the age of approximately 14. Working from historical knowledge of the times (and referring to Suzanne Dixon's book The Roman Mother) Whitehouse begins from the premise that the average lifespan of a woman in Jesus' time was 27 years. As Jesus is said to have begun his ministry at approximately 30 years old, she finds it likely that he was a widower by that time.
In the 1990s Whitehouse wrote a fictional trilogy about a female cousin of Jesus, including The Book of Deborah.
Whitehouse's novel The Miracle Man, an updated version of the story of Christ, was published in November 2010.
Whitehouse studied New Testament Greek at Birmingham University for a year with Mark Goodacre and David Parker. She became an interfaith funeral minister in 2003. In 2007 she was ordained into the Apostolic Church of the Risen Christ, an Independent Catholic church, part of the Ascension Alliance.
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