{"id":10341,"date":"2012-10-25T23:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2012-10-25T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:05:49","slug":"will-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-be-buried-in-the-talpiot-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/will-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-be-buried-in-the-talpiot-tomb.html","title":{"rendered":"Will the Gospel of Jesus&#8217; Wife be Buried in the Talpiot Tomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/rogueclassicism.com\/2012\/10\/21\/some-more-nails-for-the-ossuary-of-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Meadows<\/a> offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus\u2019 Wife will be buried, and <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.uchicago.edu\/martycenter\/publications\/sightings\/archive_2012\/1025.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sightings has an article entitled \u201cThe Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of \u2018Jesus\u2019 Wife\u2019.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jamestabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mariamene-Inscription.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">As we await the test results on the ink on the papyrus fragment that made news headlines recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beretta-online.com\/wordpress\/2012\/the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-update\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogging<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/withmeagrepowers.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/21\/gospel-of-jesus-wife-may-be-a-fake\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gospel of Jesus\u2019 Wife<\/a> has seen an unsurprising <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/carrier\/archives\/2757\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fcarrier+%28FTB%3A+Richard+Carrier+Blogs%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lull<\/a>. But there has been some interesting discussion of what the online discussion of the topic indicates about the future of scholarship and scholarly publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/the-jesus-wife-fragment-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarkGoodacresNTBlog+%28Mark+Goodacre%27s+NT+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a> shared some thoughts on this, linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/claireclivaz.hypotheses.org\/136\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article by Claire Clivaz<\/a> about changing norms for scholarly publication and <a href=\"http:\/\/rogueclassicism.com\/2012\/10\/25\/blogosphere-the-jesus-wife-fragment-and-the-transformation-of-peer-review\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">peer review<\/a>. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2012_10_21_archive.html#348318059367475610\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Davila\u2019s<\/a> brief thoughts on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Magdalene as supposedly Jesus\u2019 wife is also associated with the Talpiot tomb, which has been generating discussion again as a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleinterp.com\/articles\/key368019.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article by my friend Eldad Keynan in\u00a0<em>The Bible and Interpretation<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/jamestabor.com\/2012\/10\/20\/the-names-in-the-talpiot-jesus-tomb-are-not-common-the-latest-on-yoseh\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Tabor has long maintained that the names in the Talpiot tomb are unusual<\/a>, and the specific combination therefore significant. For some recent blog posts responding to his arguments, see <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/talpiot-tomb-names-are-common.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarkGoodacresNTBlog+%28Mark+Goodacre%27s+NT+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/aramaicdesigns.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/the-talpiot-tomb-names-metaphor-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Caruso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/dunelm.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/25\/gospel-of-thomas-the-movie\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Blackwell<\/a> shared this video of the Gospel of Thomas turned into a movie:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gospel of Thomas Movie, Gentle\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqQUHXfqR6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Since that Gospel is largely without narrative, it is unsurprising that the movie is not exactly action-packed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/sawiggins.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/24\/mrs-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Wiggins<\/a> on Mrs. Jesus, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bigbible.org\/sansblogue\/digital-life\/blog\/blogging-needs-facebook\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Bulkeley<\/a> on why blogging needs Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Meadows offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus\u2019 Wife will be buried, and Sightings has an article entitled \u201cThe Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of \u2018Jesus\u2019 Wife\u2019.\u201d As we await the test results on the ink on the papyrus fragment that made news headlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,18,29,39],"tags":[1764,2193,2994,3562,4108,5202,5555,5677,6067,7011,7043,7082,8535,8691,12252,13719],"class_list":["post-10341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-eldad-keynan","category-gospel-of-jesus-wife","category-historical-jesus","tag-chemical","tag-coptic","tag-eldad-keynan","tag-fragment","tag-gospel-of-thomas","tag-ink","tag-james-tabor","tag-jesus","tag-karen-king","tag-mark-goodacre","tag-married","tag-mary-magdalene","tag-ossuary","tag-papyrus","tag-talpiot-tomb","tag-wife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will the Gospel of Jesus&#039; Wife be Buried in the Talpiot Tomb?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Meadows offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus&#039; Wife will be buried, and Sightings has an\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/will-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-be-buried-in-the-talpiot-tomb.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will the Gospel of Jesus&#039; Wife be Buried in the Talpiot Tomb?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Meadows offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus&#039; Wife will be buried, and Sightings has an\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/will-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-be-buried-in-the-talpiot-tomb.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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