[gatagato]

‘The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a papyrus fragment in the Coptic language that she says contains the first known statement saying that Jesus was married. The fragment also refers to a female disciple.

The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”

The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.

The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, Dr. King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.

Even with many questions unsettled, the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary Magdalene was his wife and whether he had a female disciple. These debates date to the early centuries of Christianity, scholars say. But they are relevant today, when global Christianity is roiling over the place of women in ministry and the boundaries of marriage.

Professor Karen L. King, in her office at Harvard Divinity School, held a fragment of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a reference to Jesus' wife.

Full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us...esus-wife.html

[Illusion]

Money grab imo.

[Pyramid_Head]

Interesting to say the lease.

[Dynamo47]

It certainly is interesting. I guess if I could have a time machine and use it to go back to one time it would be when Jesus was alive. I would want to meet him and follow him and see if he truly was the son of God or just an excellent speaker and leader who would have been called a cult leader in today's world.

[Rachee]

Originally Posted by Dynamo47 ↗

It certainly is interesting. I guess if I could have a time machine and use it to go back to one time it would be when Jesus was alive. I would want to meet him and follow him and see if he truly was the son of God or just an excellent speaker and leader who would have been called a cult leader in today's world.

I think your on to something Dynamo.

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by Dynamo47 ↗

It certainly is interesting. I guess if I could have a time machine and use it to go back to one time it would be when Jesus was alive. I would want to meet him and follow him and see if he truly was the son of God or just an excellent speaker and leader who would have been called a cult leader in today's world.

reminds me of tripping the rift first episode when they travel to the start of time

[Timoli]

Who the fuck cares....... written four hundred years after Jesus supposedly lived............ WHO THE FUCK CARES!!!! Fuck your retarded god and his son.