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Ebook About From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The tattered manuscript made international headlines. If early Christians believed Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world's predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex and women's leadership. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the lost Christian texts from Egypt known as the Gnostic gospels. "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife"--as she provocatively titled her discovery--was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that Christianity from its start embraced alternative, and far more inclusive, voices.As debates over the manuscript's authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His search for answers is an international detective story--leading from the factory districts of Berlin to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before winding up in rural Florida, where he discovered an internet pornographer with a prophetess wife, a fascination with the Pharaohs and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church. VERITAS is a tale of fierce intellectual rivalries at the highest levels of academia, a piercing psychological portrait of a disillusioned college dropout whose life had reached a breaking point, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of scripture that embodied her greatest hopes for Christianity--but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the nature of truth and the line between reason and faith.Book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife Review :
At a glance, the fake so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife might seem to be old news, but this investigative report reveals new aspects that should concern us. And it documents and engagingly narrates the appalling train of academic mistakes.“Confirmation bias” is a term that may go back merely to the 1970s, but as an occasional reality it is as old as humanity. Sometimes one of us becomes dead set in believing just what one wishes to be true. (Could such a custom-fit “ancient” text be manufactured to mislead me? Neveryoumind.)At first, Prof. Karen L. King reportedly thought an email offering a papyrus with Jesus mentioning “my wife” was quite likely a fake. She had published on the manuscript in Berlin of the Gospel of Mary. And here was a man claiming to have on him a related manuscript! It turned out that he was also experienced in Berlin, West and East. But she later changed course, and ran with it, despite red flags. (Disclosure: my late dear Mom graduated, cum laude, from Harvard Divinity School; I think her favorite prof was Krister Stendahl.)Harvard Theological Review got, for King’s proposed article on this margin-less non-continuous pastiche odd text written with something other than a traditional pen, two negative peer reviews. For the other reviewer, see pages 82 and 285. They did delay publication until tests showed that the ink was carbon-based—ink that anyone can make today—and that the papyrus was genuine—but dated not to ancient but to medieval times! As Myriam Krutzsch and Ira Rabin (New Testament Studies 61.3 2015) and others caution, scientific tests can check for anomalies, anachronisms, but these are not authenticators.Here are some quibbles with the book, maybe minor. Sabar helpfully mentioned other suspected fakes. But he wrote (p. 34) about Morton Smith’s “Secret Mark” that “Eminent scholars added the Secret Mark letter to the standard edition of Clement’s works.” And (p. 35) “That Clement wasn’t known to have written letters made the find all the more curious.” Adding, provisionally, a text uncertainly attributed to an ancient author is hardly an endorsement. (Compare editions of Posidonius.) And Smith in his snarky article, in Harvard Theological Review 1982, “Clement of Alexandria and Secret Mark: The Score at the End of the First Decade,” may have overstated the extent to which the letter was accepted as genuine Clement; at least one scholar listed as agreeing has denied that. (See also Eric Osborn, “Clement of Alexandria: A Review of Research, 1958-1982,” Second Century 1985 291-44.) And Clement was indeed said to have written letters (though this attribution has been disputed). Epiphanius did not live in the second century despite page 9 and again on page 10. Sabar cited (pp. 15-16 and endnote) a 1989 article by Tal Ilan on how extremely widespread was the most-popular female name, Mariamme or Maria, which is fair enough, but better, with considerably more data is her 2002 book, Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part I, Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE.One of the merits of this fine and readable book is its emphasis on the importance of investigating provenance. Especially of claims of “writing into” or “writing out of” important ancient texts. August 19, 2020Sabar, Ariel (2020). Veritas. A Harvard Professor, a conman, and the Gospel of Jesus’s wife. New York Doubleday.An award-winning investigative reporter shows that a supposedly lost “Gospel,” purporting to show that Jesus had a wife, is a forgery created by a con man.This is an excellent book, in which an investigative reporter examines Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King’s presentation of a supposedly ancient papyrus fragment which language which she introduced as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.” Supposedly, this fragment, which contained (in Coptic) the words of Jesus “My wife,” proved that Jesus had a wife, and that this was suppressed by the Early Church.Sabar proved a superb investigative reporter, tracking down sources in the US and Germany, to identify the source of the document, and to construct a biography of its provider, finally eliciting a confession he was the source.King, on the other hand, occupying a prestigious chair in the Harvard Divinity School, comes across as to ideological, that she was too easily persuaded both that the document was real, and that her interpretation of it was correct, that it was a “Gospel” (although it was but a fragment) and meant that Jesus was married, approved of women disciples and sex, and that the Early Church must have suppressed, for patriarchal reasons, all such evidence. To her, the lack of evidence was additional proof of how successful such suppression had been. King had earlier been part of the “Jesus Seminar,” whose participants sought to undermine the Catholic Church and its dogmas, and to welcome alternative “Gospels” which the Early Church had rejected as inauthentic and/or heretical.King presented the object and her conclusions to the Smithsonian Institute, and to Harvard’s own Journal of Theology, and presented it to a Conference in Rome near the Vatican, all the while asserting that it proved her feminist ideas about the suppression of the role of women in the early Church. From the very beginning, however, there were doubts, by experts, about whether it was a fake/forgery, and about its provenance. King published before the item could be tested, and declined, claiming promised secrecy, to reveal from whom she had obtain it (and thus is provenance, or history). King also concealed that “her” experts had personal connections to her.Scholars discovered several errors, in grammar and language, which showed it was forged. Eventually, King agreed that it was “probably forged.” She refused to cooperate with independent investigators, or with the reporter’s search into the document’s origins. King appeared to believe that the document was “true,” whether or not it was forged, because it initiated necessary conversations about the early church and the Gospels. To her, “truth” and “dates” were not values, but only narratives controlled by those in power. The book, in passing, eviscerates such “post-modern” scholarship, with its lack of respect for truth. Thus, the great irony of the book’s title, VERITAS, which means “Truth,” and is Harvard’s Motto.Sabar’s investigations disclosed the source, who eventually confessed he was the source, who had the ability to forge the document, though he denied he did so. This person, Walter Fritz, was a German, who had studied Egyptology and Coptic writing, later worked for the Stasi in East Berlin, ran a pornography business with his wife in Florida, and had the means and motive. Although he lied and lied to the reported, the reporter persisted and, when Fritz was confronted with evidence, Fritz changed his stories and confirmed the reporter’s findings.The book is an excellent account of how even the most learned and most prestigious, scholars and institutions, can be fooled, especially when they are predisposed to be fooled. It shows, in this and other examples, how con men take advantage even of the elite, by giving them what they want to be true. That articles are published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, by the most reputable and titled scholars, is no guarantee of authenticity or correct interpretation, especially by scholars with pre-determined conclusions and a disdain for traditional standards of truth and provenance. 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