{"id":1855,"date":"2012-09-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/09\/did-jesus-have-a-wife.html"},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:30:00","slug":"did-jesus-have-a-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/09\/did-jesus-have-a-wife.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Jesus have a wife?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A newly discovered fragment of Coptic writing suggests some contemporaries of Jesus argued about his marital status and some believed he was married, according to a Harvard scholar of early Christianity.<\/div>\n
Karen L. King<\/a>, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, presented her finding Tuesday at a meeting of Coptic scholars.<\/div>\n
In her paper, King notes the papyrus is the \u201conly extant ancient text which explicitly portrays Jesus as referring to a wife.\u00a0 It does not, however, provide evidence that the historical Jesus was married, given the late date of the fragment and the probable date of original composition only in the second half of the second century.\u00a0<\/div>\n
At the\u00a010th International Congress of Coptic Studies<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday, King spoke about her finding based on a piece of papyrus fragment provided by anonymous private collector who contacted her to analyze it.<\/div>\n
\u201cKing and colleague AnneMarie Luijendijk, an associate professor of religion at Princeton University, believe that the fragment is part of a newly discovered gospel,\u201d according to a\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0from Harvard.<\/div>\n
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A newly discovered fragment of Coptic writing suggests some contemporaries of Jesus argued about his marital status and some believed he was married, according to a Harvard scholar of early Christianity. Karen L. King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, presented her finding Tuesday at a meeting of Coptic scholars. 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