The entire theological world changed back in 2012, at least that’s what we were told at the time, and the announcement came in none other than Smithsonian, that is the official journal of the Smithsonian Institution. Back in 2012 we were told that an ancient papyrus manuscript written in Coptic, a fragment, had been found that indicated that Jesus might have had a wife, that indeed Jesus Christ had probably been married. As a matter of fact, the papyrus fragment became known as “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” and it became so precisely because a renowned professor at Harvard Divinity School had put her own personal reputation behind the claim, and she presented the claim at an academic conference held in Rome in the year 2012. The professor was Karen King, the Hollis Professor of Divinity of the Harvard Divinity School; she announced that she had identified an ancient papyrus fragment that includes the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife . . .’”
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