Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Wife of Jesus?

All over the internet this week has been the story of a fragment of an ancient Egyptian document with the words "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'" In all, the fragment contains just 33 words and incomplete sentences - an English teacher's worst nightmare! Karen King of Harvard University, one of the scholars charged with analyzing the fragment, stopped short of saying this proves Jesus was married, only to add that some ancient Christians thought Jesus was in fact married...to a woman...just to clarify...thought I'd throw that in for free!
Over the years, as these sorts of discoveries are unearthed and plastered all of the media, I've found these scholars (and there are more) to be level-headed, fair and accurate in their commentary. Check it out!
Darrell Bock
Craig A. Evans
UPDATE:
Larry Hurtado
Simon Gathercole



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