David Meadows offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife will be buried, and Sightings has an article entitled “The Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of ‘Jesus’ Wife’.”
As we await the test results on the ink on the papyrus fragment that made news headlines recently, blogging about the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife has seen an unsurprising lull. But there has been some interesting discussion of what the online discussion of the topic indicates about the future of scholarship and scholarly publication.
Mark Goodacre shared some thoughts on this, linking to an article by Claire Clivaz about changing norms for scholarly publication and peer review. See also Jim Davila’s brief thoughts on the topic.
Mary Magdalene as supposedly Jesus’ wife is also associated with the Talpiot tomb, which has been generating discussion again as a result of an article by my friend Eldad Keynan in The Bible and Interpretation. James Tabor has long maintained that the names in the Talpiot tomb are unusual, and the specific combination therefore significant. For some recent blog posts responding to his arguments, see Mark Goodacre and Steve Caruso.
On a related note, Ben Blackwell shared this video of the Gospel of Thomas turned into a movie:
Since that Gospel is largely without narrative, it is unsurprising that the movie is not exactly action-packed…
See also Steve Wiggins on Mrs. Jesus, and Tim Bulkeley on why blogging needs Facebook.
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