Doubts Arise Over 'jesus' Wife' Papyrus

[mortify]

Scholarly doubt... possible financial motive... anyone surprised?

[url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49092144"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49092144[/url]

Enjoy.

Edited September 20, 2012 by mortify

[CatherineM]

Not shocked

[Jaime]

Now I have to take all my Catholic stuff off of Ebay...

[4588686]

[quote name='mortify' timestamp='1348106214' post='2484494']
Scholarly doubt [/QUOTE]

Doubt is how scholarship works.

[i][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=4]She stressed that the text, assuming it's authentic, doesn't provide any historical evidence that Jesus was actually married — only evidence that some two centuries after he died, some early Christians believed he had a wife.[/size][/font][/color][/i]


[QUOTE]... possible financial motive[/QUOTE]

Somebody said the owner could have a financial motivation. No poo.


[QUOTE]... anyone surprised?

[url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49092144"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49092144[/url]

Enjoy.
[/quote]

Am I surprised that the owner of a potentially rare text may want to to in fact be rare and exciting so it will be more valuable and that scholars disagree with each other? No. I'm not.

[Groo the Wanderer]

Because nobody every in the history of Man ever wrote fiction...until the 20th century.

this fragment could just as easily have been from a school play written by a kid. There is zero context in which to place it.


ah the elephant is much like a snake, said the blind man who touched it's tail...

Edited September 20, 2012 by Groo the Wanderer