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Veritas : a Harvard professor, a con man, and the Gospel of Jesus's wife / Ariel Sabar
VerfasserSabar, Ariel In Wikipedia suchen nach Ariel Sabar
ErschienenNew York : Doubleday, 2020
Ausgabe
First edition
Umfangxii, 401 Seiten
Anmerkung
Includes bibliographical references and index
SchlagwörterKing, Karen L / 1954- In Wikipedia suchen nach Karen L / 1954- King / Jesus Christ / Words / Extra-canonical parallels In Wikipedia suchen nach Jesus Christ / Words / Extra-canonical parallels / Gospel of Jesus's Wife / Manuscripts (Papyri) / Forgeries In Wikipedia suchen nach Gospel of Jesus's Wife / Manuscripts (Papyri) / Forgeries / Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) / Forgeries In Wikipedia suchen nach Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) / Forgeries / Forgery of antiquities In Wikipedia suchen nach Forgery of antiquities / Forgery of manuscripts In Wikipedia suchen nach Forgery of manuscripts
ISBN978-0-385-54258-6
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Zusammenfassung

"In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the celibate, all-male priesthood, but the entire the 2,000-year history of the faith. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the Gnostic gospels. The "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," as she titled her discovery, was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that there were alternative, and much more inclusive, versions of Christianity from its beginnings. Assigned to write a story about King's find, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar began to unearth disquieting questions about the papyrus. His globe-spanning investigation would lead to a rural hamlet in inland Florida, where he discovered a college dropout with a prophetess wife, a curious past in Germany, and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church. The deeper Sabar dug into the mysteries of the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," the more surreal the story became. VERITAS is at once a surprising detective story, a fascinating journey through the rarefied worlds of Biblical Studies and Egyptology, a piercing psychological portrait of a many-faced con artist, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of ancient paper that appealed to her greatest hopes for Christianity--but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the line between reason and faith"--