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"Jesus said to them, 'my wife'..."

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Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'...

By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

(CNN) - A newly revealed, centuries-old papyrus fragment suggests that some early Christians might have believed Jesus was married. The fragment, written in Coptic, a language used by Egyptian Christians, says in part, "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ..."

Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2- by 3-inch honey-colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association for Coptic Studies.
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Dan Brown was right.
 
:) gotta loooove that selective citation of source material :)


King has been quick to add this discovered text "does not, however, provide evidence that the historical Jesus was married," she wrote in a draft of her analysis of the fragment set to appear in the January edition of Harvard Theological Review. The divinity school has posted a draft of King's article to which AnneMarie Luijendijk, an associate professor of religion at Princeton University, contributed...."What I'm really quick to say is to cut off people who would say this is proof that Jesus was married because historically speaking, it's much too late to constitute historical evidence," she continued. "I'm not saying he was, I'm not saying he wasn't. I'm saying this doesn't help us with that question," she continued...
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:roll: the Dan Brown theory is fun, and makes for an enjoyable book. But it is historically fiction.
 
cpwill said:
:) gotta loooove that selective citation of source material :)




:roll: the Dan Brown theory is fun, and makes for an enjoyable book. But it is historically fiction.
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Da Vinci code is fluff, but the "Dan Brown" theory as you call it is not. The fact that Jesus was originally understood at least some factions (if not all) of the early Churh to have been married to Mary Magdelene is better attested than the historicity of Jesus Himself!
 
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