'Jesus' wife' fragment is not a fake, scientists claim - Science - News - The Independent

'Jesus' wife' fragment is not a fake, scientists claim - Science - News - The Independent:

A Harvard professor is claiming a fragment of papyrus seemingly mentioning that Jesus had a wife is an ancient document and not a forgery, following a series of tests.

The text is written in Coptic and contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife."

Karen King, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, writes in the Harvard Theological Review that the papyrus is almost certainly a product of ancient Christians and probably dates to eighth-century Egypt, based on carbon dating and chemical tests on the ink.

None of the testing has produced any evidence that the fragment is a modern fabrication or forgery, Prof King and her team concluded.

The fragment, which has some legible lines on the front and on the back, contains the words: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …. She will also be my disciple.”

 

 

 

 The Gospel of Jesus' wife: File photo released by Harvard University
shows a fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King said
is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring
to having a wife.