NYT: Historian says papyrus refers to Jesus' wife

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 14:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of scripture: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …'"

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