The Abrahmic religions and patriarchy have been inexorably intertwined since they arose. You are completely unjustified in saying some wholly separate "patriarchy" motivated the actions of those Christian men. It was as much part of the religion as communion.

The bigger question for you to answer is why didn't their sincere Christian beliefs overrule that, and leave her in?

Seems to be the go-to explanation for every lousy thing clergy does these days.

So you correctly noted that indeed, the Scribes in question were Christian Scribes.

And I agree with the author that patriarchy is at the root of this rewriting.

No matter how misguided it might be.

And even established religions have the ability to evolve.

Elizabeth Schrader's work is evidence of this evolution.

I was fortunate to grow up in a matriarchal family.

What's left of any men who tried to assert their "God-given" patriarchal authority over their wives and daughters is probably buried somewhere out in the back forty.

My last immigrant ancestor was a mail order bride to Salt Lake city. That's how she escaped Europe to America.

She didn't much like sharing a husband here so she captured a monogamous man who was passing through town and established a homestead elsewhere, probably taking advantage of federal policies to delegitimize the Mormon church. That's how she escaped Salt Lake City.

that dominated the dialogue for 2000 years.

of patriarchy, is to be shockingly ignorant of its history.

as you mischaracterize it. Patriarchy is a part of most societies.

Their descendants live on to this day.

...it's crap.

But the larger point is about the obvious patriarchal thinking that allowed these leaders and scribes to rewrite much of her story out of history.

how can she be 'written out'?

Just off the top of my head, I can offer the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (originally published in 1982, and part of the inspiration for Dan Brown's book The DaVinci Code) as just one attempt to tweak out Mary Magdalene's true role from the one she plays in the gospels.

The Cathars of the Middle Ages (the victims of the Albigensian Crusade) also honored her as playing a much more significant role. That's one of the reasons the Church wiped them out....

I could cite many other examples.

Patriarchy needs to suppress the voices and roles of women.

that such a patriarchal religion came out of a matriarchal one.

But it did serve to suppress and control women.

the Christian Church has rewritten history to fit their narrative about Magdalene.
But we are to accept that this same Church has kept the history of the man Yeshua accurate for the same period.
Is there something wrong with this picture?

It is the effects of patriarchy.

to have missed my point completely