How many millions of people are named Jesus? Which one is the fragment referring to anyway.
How old is the physical papyrus?
How old is the physical ink?
How old are the words written with the ink on the papyrus?
Tests show a date for the papyrus that is later than 600 AD.
The ink is lampblack, which had been used for centuries before and centuries after the Nativity, so it is not useful for precise dating.
Then there are the words and the style of the letters.
There is nothing in either to suggest a date earlier than 200 AD or later than 800 AD.
Because it is a fragment, it could simply be a small blank piece ripped from another unrelated manuscript and used by a forger.
In any event, it is about as convincing as someone finding a piece of paper from 1955 which contains a fragment of an account of the US Constitutional debates.
Do I care if it is written on a kind of paper and with a kind of ink that was available in the 1950s?
No, because it could have been written yesterday using those materials.
And, further, whether it was written in 1955 or 2014, the author had no special personal insight into events that happened over a century before the writer was born.
This Jesus wife fragment nonsense is the lamest hit the revisionists have ever attempted, it is pathetic in so many ways. And they call themselves scholars...lol!
This has become a modern Easter tradition. Some news attempting to debunk the gospel. Used to be heralded from the covers of Time and/or Newsweek. Are they still around?
Anyone remember the “Lost” verses of Mark, found in a monastery library a few decades ago? The anti-Christians latched onto that like it was gold!
Then it was found the ONLY source for it was that it was handwritten on flyleaf of a book published in the 1600s, in a 1700 hand, in 2nd century Greek.
I understand the book has since disappeared and has never been shown to biblical scholars.
The original anti-Bible news stories always get more attention than the debunking ones later. It’s such a shame.