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!
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...
Hat tip to Mark Goodacre via Twitter for this update on the forgery. The post is by Coptologist Christian Askeland.
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...
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,...
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 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...
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