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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
The author has used a collage or patchwork compositional technique, and this level of dependence on extant pieces of Coptic text is more plausibly attributed to a modern author, with limited facility in Coptic, than to an ancient one.' According to...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story In an undated handout photo, A papyrus fragment written in the Coptic language that a historian says contains the first known statement saying Jesus was married. The fragment could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married Harvard...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Harvard University says it hasn't committed to publishing research that purportedly shows some early Christians believed Jesus had a wife even though its divinity school touted the research during a publicity blitz this week. The research centers on...
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The Observer
| 8 months ago
Rose Lincoln/EPA A New Testament scholar claims to have found evidence suggesting that the Gospel of Jesus's Wife is a modern forgery. Professor Francis Watson, of Durham University, says the papyrus fragment, which caused a worldwide sensation when...
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AKI
| 8 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI will in December publish a new book on the childhood of Jesus told in the gospels - the pontiff's third and final volume on the central figure of Christianity. The book will be jointly published with Rizzoli, and will be available...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
King , a historian of early Christianity, announced this week that she had identified a fragment of ancient Coptic text in which Jesus utters the words my wife, she said she was making the finding public despite many unresolved questions so that her...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
A scrap of ancient papyrus no larger than a credit card may provide evidence that Jesus was married and might even have had a family. The faded fourth-century fragment challenges centuries of Church teaching on clerical celibacy and whether women can...
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
Updated 38 minutes ago Text size H arvard Theological Review has not yet committed to publishing a professor's research on a controversial fragment of papyrus that references the wife of Jesus Christ despite Harvard's initial announcement of the...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Researching the past is not just a quest after forgotten people, objects and events. It is supposedly a ceremony of reason.' Illustration: Toby Morison Did Jesus marry Mary Magdalene and have children?...The discovery of a papyrus fragment suggesting...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
James Martin, a Jesuit priest, is a contributing editor to the Catholic magazine America and the author of Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life...King, a church historian at Harvard Divinity...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
These outlets downplayed the fact that the papyrus fragment in question (which some scholars have questioned the authenticity of ), in King's judgment, dates from the 4th century, and that Jesus lived in the 1st century. They also failed to mention ...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 8 months ago
This is a fascinating find but there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before one can definitely say that Jesus was married, said Virginia C. Raguin, a professor of art history at the College of the Holy Cross...King, a historian of...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 20 Would you ever go through hazing to be part of a group? September 20 What questions does the discovery of a fourth century papyrus referring to Jesus' wife raise? September 20 Can you choose the word pair that best...
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The Denver Post
| 8 months ago
Font Resize The 3-inch-long piece of papyrus translated by a Harvard scholar as "Jesus" talking about "my wife" doesn't prove he was married, but it raises the question, "What if?" This provocative scrap, if established as authentic, runs counter to...
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Sacramento News
| 8 months ago
In the 24 hours since a Harvard professor said it could prove Jesus had a wife, it has sparked worldwide debate including with pastors and believers in our area."Lots of people write lots of things not all of it is the bible and it could be that,"...
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
Updated 3 hours ago Text size H arvard Divinity School is holding faith in a theologian's claim that a scrap of 4th century papyrus mentions the wife of Jesus Christ, insisting in the face of some academic doubting Thomases that if it isn't exactly...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
51 am Thursday, September 20th, 2012 In this Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University, divinity professor Karen L. King holds a fourth century fragment of papyrus that she says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Facebook have started testing mobile advertising for sites and app, but rather than clutter up the F.....As soon as Education Secretary, Michael Gove speaks, most of the education establishment is so busy ... Like most...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
While the Innocence of Muslims is still being blamed for the riots and murders in the Middle East, the national news media has no problem running a speculative story that disrespects the teachings of the Christian faith. New "evidence" now suggests...
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Gawker
| 8 months ago
Jesus Christ May Have Had a Wife; Every Thug Needs a Lady Looks like you really will be the last person you know to be married: a scrap of ancient papyrus that some scholars are calling a new gospel suggests that confirmed bachelor Jesus Christ may,...
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The Dish Rag
| 8 months ago
Harvard scholar says early Christians thought so Was Jesus Christ a married man? Maybe, says a Harvard Divinity School professor named Karen King who announced that she has found a new fragment of papyrus from the 4th Century that proves some early...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Karen King, the Harvard professor who published the papyrus known as the Gospel of Jesus's Wife Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP Our sources for the ancient past are often the merest shreds and patches, and peculiarly challenging is to trace the...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
just three decades after Jesus's death -- St Paul wrote the following to Christians living in Ephesus ... Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy by washing her in cleansing...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
The Guardian , Wednesday 19 September 2012 12.37 EDT Detail from a painting of children approaching Jesus Christ. Photograph: Alamy Speculation that Jesus Christ might have married is an ancient one and, however often theologians and historians throw...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
An education campaign for illegal immigrants to remain largely silent when they're pulled over by police is being put into practice in Arizona after a federal judge ruled that the most contentious part of the state's immigration law can take effect. (...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
And experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment's anonymous owner, noting that the document's value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find. Karen King, a professor of early...
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Disinfo.com
| 8 months ago
Jesus said to them, My wife' Posted by majestic on September 19, 2012 Papyrus fragment: front...King 2012 Remember all the fuss about Jesus having married surrounding the publication of The Da Vinci Code nearly a decade ago?...King has found an...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
The writing, King told me, was in the ancient Egyptian language of Coptic, into which many early Christian texts were translated in the third and fourth centuries, when Alexandria vied with Rome as an incubator of Christian thought. When she lifted...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Britain's National Library has bought Europe's oldest fully surviving book, the St...King 2012. (Image from http://www.hds.harvard.edu) A newly-discovered ancient text labeled "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife could prove Jesus and Mary Magdalene were...
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The Jakarta Post
| 8 months ago
Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. Her paper, and the front-page attention it received in some US newspapers, was very much a topic of conversation...
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Fox
| 8 months ago
A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Ancient fragment makes reference to the 'wife of Jesus' The text reveals early Christians' concerns about sex and marriage, Harvard scholar Karen King says An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
A Harvard University professor has unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. more » Canada and creative climate accounting Sep. PM According to a...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
The fragment was supposedly written around 400 years after the death of Christ...Jack , London, 19/9/2012 02:01 Before the ulyra religious start choking on their cornflakes may I suggest that instead of getting stuck on Jesus they just focus on ALL...
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
Added 35 minutes ago Text size A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. Karen King, an expert in the...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
A previously unknown scrap of ancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian Coptic includes the words "Jesus said to them, my wife," -- a discovery likely to renew a fierce debate in the Christian world over whether Jesus was married. The existence...
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io9
| 8 months ago
Newly revealed papyrus fragment mentions Jesus's wife Karen L. King, a historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, is claiming that a small, faded scrap of papyrus dating back to the fourth century contains a phrase never before seen...
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Vanity Fair
| 8 months ago
A researcher at Harvard University has recently discovered a very tattered and very old piece of paper that is not , as it usually turns out to be, a Con-Ed bill from four months ago, but rather a piece of parchment that suggests Jesus had a wife.
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
A Harvard professor has identified what appears to be a scrap of fourth century Egyptian papyrus that contains the first known explicit reference to Jesus as married, a discovery that could fuel the millennia-old debate about priestly celibacy in the...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: Jesus said to them, My wife ' The...
