{"id":34875,"date":"2012-10-02T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gospel_of_jesus_wife_fragment_is_a_fake_vatican_says\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:15:07","slug":"gospel_of_jesus_wife_fragment_is_a_fake_vatican_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34875","title":{"rendered":"&#34;Gospel of Jesus&#39; wife&#34; fragment is a fake, Vatican says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery,&#8221; the Vatican&#8217;s newspaper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. &#8220;In any case, it&#8217;s a fake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joining a highly charged academic debate over the authenticity of the text, written in ancient Egyptian Coptic, the newspaper published a lengthy analysis by expert Alberto Camplani of Rome&#8217;s La Sapienza university, outlining doubts about the manuscript and urging extreme caution.<\/p>\n<p>The fragment, which reads &#8220;Jesus said to them, my wife&#8221; was unveiled by Harvard Professor Karen King as a text from the 4th century at a congress of Coptic Studies in Rome last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/28\/us-religion-jesuswife-idUSBRE88R0NT20120928\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery,&#8221; the Vatican&#8217;s newspaper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. &#8220;In any case, it&#8217;s a fake.&#8221; Joining a highly charged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34875\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,89,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-media","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}