All Hail the Bib-le` This story might be more of an undiscovery. In September 2012, Harvard University divinity professor Karen King announced the sensational finding of a small papyrus fragment written in Coptic. The text contained references to a Mary and the translated line, Jesus said to them, My wife, she will be able to be my disciple. The suggestion was that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus wife — or that some people in ancient times at least believed she was his wife. Biblical scholars had aired their suspicions about the authenticity of the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife because of problematic features, such as bad handwriting and grammatical errors. And earlier this year, a Live Science investigation revealed that the papyrus has a flimsy provenance. The anonymous owner of the papyrus claims to have purchased the document from a now-deceased man whose family said he never collected antiquities. The text is looking more and more like a forgery.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:45:00 +0000
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