September 18, 2012
ONE OF THE TERRIBLE WEAKNESSES OF THE JESUS STORY...:
A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus' Wife (LAURIE GOODSTEIN, 9/18/12, NY Times)
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...' "The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, "she will be able to be my disciple."The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation's oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.
...has always been that if He did not marry He never became fully human.
Not much wiggle room in "shall."Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 18, 2012 9:53 PM
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