The old paper about Jesus' wife is not a fake

Scientists have recently confirmed that an ancient papyrus sheet with the excerpt is said to be about the wife of Jesus not a fake.

According to the carbon dating analysis just released, the papyrus called the "Gospel of the Lord's Wife" was presented at a conference in Rome a year and a half ago that could be made out of 700 AD This broke all previous suspicions that this papyrus was recently created by antique forger.

The words written on this sheet were translated, including the following two paragraphs: 'Jesus told them:' My wife . '' and 'she is my apostle .' This passage is not only likely to imply that the Christian creator may have married and women have a very different role in churches.

Karen L. King, a professor at Harvard University, who discovered the paper originally thought that the papyrus dates from the 4th century. But then, the last chronological tests were confirmed. intended to make the paper later later, as well as remove any doubts about its authenticity.

Ancient sedge plate writes about Jesus' wife.(Source: AFP)

The Boston Globe released on Thursday (April 10) said the original paper was allegedly fake by both Vatican scholars and official newspapers, but the carbon date of the paper showed that the ink written on it was made from the 8th century in Egypt.

'I just hope we can quickly end the controversy about the authenticity of the paper and focus on the importance of a piece of Christian history. We should ask questions like how the Lord Jesus has a wife or not, or why people react like that to this. Now, after re-reading the other passages, I think the issue mentioned here is just Jesus asserting that wives and mothers are capable of becoming their apostles, " said King. .

However, with the latest analysis results, Professor King himself has his own thoughts. In an interview with the New York Times, the newspaper reported that her complete confidence in the paper was genuine, Professor King said: 'I consider the opinions of those who give the paper a fake. very seriously. Even if all the evidence was brought up in a relationship, it was probably 100% true. But history is not where we often meet 100% accurate things. "

Others also have doubts. In an interview with the Boston Globe, the Egyptologist Leo Depuydt of Brown University said: 'Nothing can change my mind. As a fake, this paper is a joke and a lie. I do not believe that it is made sophisticatedly. An undergraduates can also make it in one afternoon. "

In an interview with the Times, Mr. Depuydt also added that what was written on the paper was ' full of grammatical errors ' and could be written down with a homemade ink, but 'a new student took a semester about the Egyptian Church's language ' can also be done.

According to the Globe, two carbon dating tests were carried out with the first, made by Arizona State University's Accelerated Mass Laboratory, the second by the university's Noreen Tuross Laboratory. Harvard made.

"I have yet to see anyone make a convincing objection that the paper was found to be fake," said Roger Bagnall, director of New York University's Institute of Ancient World Studies.