Ping
Could be an ancient fake...
Just an old fake.
What idiots! EIGHTH century. EGYPTIAN. Figure it out folks: it’s Muslim.
Based on what? I think this "expert" King is injecting some wishful thinking on her part.
Basically irrelevant, none of Jesus’ works depended on him being single...
The Koran could be considered ancient too. So are the gnostics like the book of Thomas, the book or Judas, the book of Mary, etc.
That doesn’t mean I believe any of them.
Sure it could be ancient. So were many of the false gospels that were never adopted by the Church.
Jesus' wife? Ludicrous.
anyone else remember when James Cameron found the tomb\body of Jesus during Holy Week?
Neither was the “Donation of Constantine”. Age doesn’t impart honor to anything but wine and whiskey. Well, there may be a few exceptions to that.
What was frustrating is that I can’t find a complete translation. Unless it specifies “wife” what it may refer to is the bond Jesus had with his mother. She was his first disciple. She knew before Cana and in fact at the Annunciation that this person was/is the Son of God.
Between the sixth and ninth centuries, allegedly. Still makes it hundreds of years newer than the earliest manuscripts of the Canonical Gospels. If it dates from that time period, I would conclude it is a Gnostic document, and therefore doesn’t come from an early and authentic tradition.
Two thousand year old fan fiction?
I've read that a woman who serves Christ, such as a nun, for example, are sometimes called a "bride of Christ" or "His spouse" and similar such terms that reflect true Holy matrimony with God, rather than a worldly marriage.
Assuming this artifact is real, why assume a human worldly understanding when He used analogy and metaphor to describe and to help us to understand what He was teaching?
Perhaps this, if not a hoax, is an example of where we have eyes but do not see, ears but do not understand? Our ways are not His ways or so I've read.
“send jolts through the world of biblical scholarship—and beyond.”
Jolts? More likely yawns.
Now we have the fifth-column (hell-spawned) media dragging this old 2012 story back out to pollute any coverage of the Passion of Christ, along with propaganda suggesting that Jesus ordained Mary Magdalene as a Apostle.
Proverbs 26:11 comes to mind.
Hard to imagine Mary letting her good Jewish boy go unmarried.
The age of the fake is irrelevant.
The Gnostics had LOTS of fake writings.