I wrote about this earlier, but I feel this update deserved a new post. Recently, Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, was investigating the authenticity of a donated ancient fragment (supposedly from the second century) that has a text of someone named Jesus saying, "My wife . . .", surrounded by many other biblical terms.
The Huffington Post and CNN jumped all over the catchy headlines involving Jesus having a wife, wondering -curiously- more so about the implications on women's church leadership and a few other politically-charged but biblically-peripheral issues rather than, perhaps, the accuracy of the Bible itself. Not surprisingly, their coverage of "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife" dwindled as the fragment in question went off to Rome and other scholarly circles to have its authenticity examined, perhaps leaving many questions and doubts in the minds of their readers.
However, a cousin seminarian of mine "re-tweeted" an article from a Duke professor, one of the many in the scholarly circles examining "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife," and his article has many valid points about its likely modern forgery.
You can read about it here.
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