Another one (probably) bites the dust. Good riddance, if true. Despite persistent attempts to discredit/rewrite the Gospel, none have succeeded, thanks be to God. This stuff only finds an audience for those with itching ears. Listen if you have ears to hear!

From Dr. Witherington’s blog.

How the ‘Jesus’ Wife’ Hoax Fell Apart

By
Jerry Pattengale
May 1, 2014 7:17 p.m. ET

In September 2012, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King announced the discovery of a Coptic (ancient Egyptian) gospel text on a papyrus fragment that contained the phrase “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife . . .’ ” The world took notice. The possibility that Jesus was married would prompt a radical reconsideration of the New Testament and biblical scholarship.

Yet now it appears almost certain that the Jesus-was-married story line was divorced from reality. On April 24, Christian Askeland—a Coptic specialist at Indiana Wesleyan University and my colleague at the Green Scholars Initiative—revealed that the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, as the fragment is known, was a match for a papyrus fragment that is clearly a forgery.

Read it all.