Thursday, September 20, 2012

Mrs. Jesus Christ

From the New York Times:
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 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.”

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