The controversy that accompanied Don Brown‘s Da Vinci Code has come alive again.
A new papyrus found indicates that Jesus was married.
US expert Karen King said it is the only text to suggest a marriage — as in hit book The Da Vinci Code.
“The excerpt, written in ancient Egyptian Coptic, reads: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife — she will be able to be my disciple’.”
It appears to add: “I dwell with her.
See the following reaction from a Biblical Scholar.
Bible scholar Ben Witherington also urged caution.
He said texts of the period used “the language of intimacy” for spiritual relationships.
If the text/papyrus is found on Other Religions, especially Islam, it is Gospel.
” A previously unknown scrap ofancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian Coptic includes the words “Jesus said to them, my wife,” — a discovery likely to renew a fierce debate in the Christian world over whether Jesus was married.
The existence of the fourth-century fragment — not much bigger than a business card — was revealed at a conference in Rome on Tuesday by Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity atHarvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim,” King said in a statement released by Harvard.
“This new gospel doesn’t prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage.”
What a double standard?
Source:The Times of India The Sun UK.
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