Quote of the Week

2 billion Christians celebrate
the life, death, and resurrection
of an un-married Jesus.

"We still have some work to do,” 

Karen King said (see below) “testing the ink and so on and so forth, but what is exciting about this fragment is that it's the first case we have of Christians claiming that Jesus had a wife.”

Karen King, a professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding on Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. The text, written in Coptic and probably translated from a second-century Greek text, contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary.

She (Karen King) stressed that the text, assuming it's authentic, doesn't provide any historical evidence that Jesus was actually married — only evidence that some two centuries after he died, some early Christians believed he had a wife.

Bravo to academia for talking about the obvious and making it appear to be more important than it really is...