I also learned that they picked and chose what to put in the Bible...because they believed some and not others. This just ruined my credibility issue with the Bible...
I guess some of Mary’s writings they didn’t like so they didn’t add it to the Bible at all. ?????
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the literacy rate in ancient Palestine is usually figured as being under 3%. The chance that Mary, a woman of humble means born in 16 BC or so in a mainly agricultural portion of Galilee, would have been taught to read and write is pretty minute. There is ample reason to question the authenticity of any supposed “writings” by Mary. I would also doubt that Joseph was literate - Jesus probably acquired whatever literacy he possessed (and there is only one passage of the Bible that I am aware of where he is described as “writing”) in connection with his visits to the temple and the likelihood that, having shown an early talent for preaching, he was probably given a thorough religious education.