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What was the “Gospel of Jesus’ wife” hoax?

The Gospel of Jesus’ wife was a forgery by a certain Walter Fritz. Fritz managed to convince a historian of early Christianity at Harvard, Karen L. King,  the a fragment of papyrus, written in the ancient language of Coptic, contained a legend about Jesus having married. King presented it at a conference in Rome in September 2012, and the story quickly spread through the world’s press. It was exposed as a hoax by an investigative journalist in July 2016.

You can read about it here:

The Atlantic THE UNBELIEVABLE TALE OF JESUS’S WIFE  “A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.” By Ariel Sabar

 

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