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The title is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that Peter Kirby had a round-up of 50 blogs abuzz about the so-called Gospel of Jesus\u2019 Wife fragment. I\u2019m grateful that my previous round-up was one of the ones he chose to include. Among recent scholarly posts, see those by Brice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":22942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[899,3533,3562,4093,8691],"class_list":["post-22941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gospel-of-jesus-wife","tag-authentic","tag-forgery","tag-fragment","tag-gospel-of-jesus-wife","tag-papyrus"],"yoast_head":"\n
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