Hat tip to Mark Goodacre via Twitter for this update on the forgery. The post is by Coptologist Christian Askeland.
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...
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...
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...
I’m assuming no image of the “GJW” exists.
Probably written with a Sharpy on a grocery bag. (1)
Best.
1- [e.n.]21st C update of crayon/brown paper bag.
funny – all that there is is the forged fragment.
Am I misunderstanding the article or are all the assessments being made using photocopies and transcriptions? If so, why not actually study/test the original?
Yes, you’re pretty late to the game (not intended to be pejorative there). The point is that the “original” was forged from various sources – someone obtained a fragment of ancient material and forged content onto it from known sources, splicing the items together to MAKE this text say what it says. For older posts on this that have more detail (with illustrations of how it was done), put these words into my site’s search field (upper right hand corner): Jesus wife gospel coptic.
thanks!