An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history, external. Harvard divinity professor Karen King unveiled the ...

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Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a ...

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Among the Christians of the Middle East, the largest number – some eight million or so – is made up of Egypt’s Copts. Since I first visited Egypt in the 1990s, I have been interested in this community ...

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An ancient scrap of papyrus dating back to the 4th Century states explicitly that Jesus had a wife, an expert in Christian history has claimed. A fragment of papyrus has thrown Jesus’ marital status ...