Veritas A Harvard Professor A Con Man And The Gospel Of Jesus's Wife

Description: From the National Book Critics Circle Award - winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. In 2012, Dr. Karen King a star religion professor at Harvard announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene my wife. The mysterious manuscript which King provocatively titled The Gospel of Jesus's Wife had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all - male priesthood but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage sex and women's leadership much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. Award - winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King's announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history - making papyrus come from? Sabar's dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle - riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors Veritas is an exhilarating globe - straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long - lost piece of the Bible.
Title: Veritas A Harvard Professor A Con Man And The Gospel Of Jesus's Wife
Barcode: 9780525433897
Publication Date: 6/29/2021