Update: 6/16/2016 – Karen King does the right thing in her response to the essay below, owns her mistake.] Jim West directs our attention to (in his words) “this damning essay” in The Atlantic that “sheds light on the fraud perpetrated on...
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More Evidence that So-Called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife was Forged
Hat tip to Mark Goodacre via Twitter for this update on the forgery. The post is by Coptologist Christian Askeland.
Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Forgery Subject of Latest NTS Journal – Free Access
Thanks to Mark Goodacre for the the notice on this. The latest issue of the scholarly journal New Testament Studies is dedicated to exposing the fraudulent nature of the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” The editors have granted free access to the...
Jacobovici and Wilson’s Lost Gospel: Lengthy Review by Richard Bauckham
Well-known New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham recently completed his lengthy review of the latest “Jesus revisionism” book by Jacobovici and Wilson that I’ve blogged about previously. Bauckham published his review in seven online installments,...
The “Jesus Wife” Fragment is a Fake: The Smoking Gun
Coptic scholar Christian Askeland deserves credit for demonstrating conclusively that the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” is a fake. Here’s a link that illustrates the fakery. What Askeland found makes it very obvious.
The Wife of Jesus Coptic Fragment: Another Update
The New York Times online science page published a short article today wherein scientists who have examined the Coptic fragment that has Jesus referring to his wife (“my wife”) is more likely authentic than not. Sigh. The issue isn’t really if the...
New Book Critiquing Jesus Mythicism
Another bad day for the Zeitgeist crowd. Prof. Larry Hurtado (Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) alerted his blog readers to a new book by Prof. Maurice Casey (Emeritus, Nottingham University). The title is Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Hurtado...
Update on Second Talpiot Tomb
This is about Talpiot B, the tomb with the alleged “Jonah and the fish” symbol on one of the ossuaries. Most people don’t think this is a coherent identification. I don’t (“Jonah” still looks like a ball of string to me). I’ve...
Mythical Canon Fodder on Bible Secrets Revealed
Hope you caught the pun. Except for football, I don’t watch TV, so I sadly (!) missed this latest round of Bible secrets nonsense. I let others suffer in my place, like the author of “Bible Secrets Revealed?: A Response to the New History Channel Series...
Templar and Talpiot Twaddle: It Must be Easter
Ah, it's that time of year again. Readers will be thrilled to know that Simcha Jacobovici is keeping his "just so you know that Easter is really about me and my ideas" streak alive. In the past, Simcha has partnered with James Tabor to bunny hop all over the Christian...
The “Wife of Jesus” Fragment Forgery: How It Was Done
Mark Goodacre has posted links to Andrew Bernhard’s research on the fragment in regard to how the fraud was accomplished. One is a complete analysis and is well worth a look.
Divorcing Jesus’ Wife
This figures to be my last update on this, at least until after November's academic conferences. I'm bored with it. Here's some item updates on the alleged (but now suspected by many to be fake) fragment that has Jesus referring to his wife. (In case you're late to...
Elementary, Dr. Watson? Is the New “Wife of Jesus” Text a Fake?
As a couple of readers here and over at my Naked Bible blog have brought up the recent proposal that the Coptic text in question is a fake, I thought I would direct readers to this short (6 pp.) explanation from Prof. Francis Watson as to how he thinks it was done....
List of “Jesus Had a Wife” Articles
Over at the Bible Places blog, Todd Bolen has posted a helpful list of online posts/essays on the new Coptic text that has Jesus addressing his wife. Have a look!
The Humanity of Jesus: Could Jesus Have Been Married?
I’m sure by now readers have heard the recent announcement that Dr. Karen King of Harvard has announced (in Rome at a conference) that she is in possession of a small fragment of a Coptic manuscript that has Jesus addressing his wife (the line reads:...