New study may prove authenticity of ‘Gospel of Jesus’s wife’

The papyrus has been the subject of huge controversy, with academics alternatively arguing that the document is variously a fake and authentic.

The Gospel of Jesus” Wife, a fragment from a larger text written in Coptic, is called so because it contains the words “Jesus said to them, “My wife…'”, and also mentions the name “Mary”, which some scholars have taken to refer to Mary Magdalene, Live Science relates.

Dr. King has said that the papyrus dates back to the fourth century.

Still, she told The Times it’s exciting to think that Jesus may have had a wife.

King stood by her claim that the scrap was a plausible relic, which was backed up by a 2014 Harvard Theological Review analysis that estimated the papyrus was about 1,200 years old and made with ink similar in consistency to inks used around that time.

King and communications staff at Harvard Divinity School have not responded to repeated requests for comment. The authors’ research was based on ancient texts, ABC News reported. Now, new tests have been carried out by scientists at Columbia University, and these tests support the earlier results. Researchers are saying little till their report is revealed; nevertheless they did speak about one discovering that would present some help for its authenticity. What’s more, in 1963 he was living in Western Germany, while Potsdam was beyond the Berlin Wall and he could not have bought anything from there. [6 Archaeological Forgeries That Tried to Change History]. Anybody can search these databases and obtain these paperwork. These signatures can be compared with the signature recording the sale of the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife – providing another way to verify or disprove the story of how the “gospel” made its way to Harvard.

Gesine Schenke Robinson from Claremont Graduate University wrote a study presenting 10 reasons why the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment was a fake.

Heated debate also surrounds the origins of the mysterious papyrus. The brand new Laukamp paperwork permit the story of his life between 1995 and 2002 to be advised in some element. However if Laukamp didn’t own the papyrus and the anonymous owner has not been truthful, then further doubt would be cast on the papyrus’ authenticity, and information leading to the identity, motives and techniques of the forgers could be found.

Previous year a study dated the fragment from between the sixth and ninth centuries AD – but a German professor has since suggested that similarities between the “gospel” and another papyrus mean both are in fact forgeries. [See Images of the Ancient Gospel of Judas].

Askeland found that the text and line breaks are identical to those of another papyrus, published in a 1924 book. King to translate and analyze it. It was discovered either in Egypt or Syria, as the language in which it was written is the ancient Coptic.

“The main topic of the fragment is to affirm that women who are mothers and wives can be disciples of Jesus – a topic that was hotly debated in early Christianity as celibate virginity increasingly became highly valued”, King has said.

“The two Coptic fragments clearly shared the same ink, writing implement and scribal hand”.