Our take: A newly discovered Christian gospel has Jesus referring to his wife. The recently discovered piece of papyrus addresses issues of family and discipleship and was this week in Rome to a conference of Coptic scholars.
At 7 p.m. this evening in Rome (1 p.m. EST), Hollis professor of divinity Karen L. King revealed to a conference of Coptic scholars the existence of a newly discovered Christian gospel. In the fragmentary text, Jesus refers unmistakably to "my wife."
Read more about the lost gospel of Jesus' "wife" on Harvard Magazine.
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I wonder what newly discovered means? This gospel was exposed a few years ago on the discovery or history channel. The gospel has been hidden away and archived in the Popes library for several hundred years and it was determined that Jesus was too More..