Description
| Product ID: | 9781913348304 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Veritas |
| Subtitle: | a Harvard professor, a con man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife |
| Authors: | Author: Ariel Sabar |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | True stories of discovery, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural history, Religion and beliefs, History of religion, Christianity, Christianity, Christianity, Gnosticism, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Reportage & collected journalism, Social & cultural history, Religion & beliefs, History of religion, Christianity, The historical Jesus, Christian theology, Gnosticism, Hoaxes & deceptions |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From award-winning author Ariel Sabar comes the gripping, true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that engulfed Harvard University. In 2012, Dr Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery. She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus — ‘The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’, as she titled it — in which Jesus called Mary Magdalene ‘my wife’. Her announcement made international headlines. If early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world’s predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership. As debates over the manuscript’s authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His indefatigable search for answers became an international true-crime story, in which, remarkably, he managed to solve the crime. |
| Imprint Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-12 |