Harvard Theological Review Refuses to Pull Fake 'Jesus Had a Wife' Papyrus Story

BY BRANDON SHOWALTER , CP CONTRIBUTOR
June 24, 2016|4:27 pm

A Harvard journal is refusing to retract a 2014 article it published about an infamous scrap of papyrus suggesting Jesus had a wife even though the professor who authored it now admits the fragment is a forgery.

Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King told the Boston Globe last week that "it appears now that all the material [Ernest Fritz, owner of the fragment,] gave to me concerning the provenance of the papyrus ... were fabrications."

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