The so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife� is back in the news

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So much of what is presented as modern biblical and theological scholarship is an effort to destroy the very idea of orthodox Christianity and to erase all distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy. That is why so much attention is devoted to marginal issues of scholarship like this tiny fragment of papyrus. The Gospel of Jesuss Wife tells us nothing about Jesus and very little, if anything, about early Christianity. It tells us a great deal about modern scholarship, however and that is the real message of this controversy.

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The most declarative article in the Harvard Theological Review, however, dismisses the entire fragment as a modern forgery. Professor Leo Depuydt of Brown University argues that the fragments authenticity is out of the question. He points to several factors, including the fact that a set of typographical errors in the fragment matches a set of errors in an online edition of the Gospel of Thomas, an ancient Gnostic text. Depuydt put the chances of coincidence with respect to these errors as one in a trillion. Depuydt states that he has not the slightest doubt that the document is a forgery, and not a very good one at that.