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Harvard has created a new website devoted to the Gospel of Jesus' Wife here, which, among other things, gives free access to Harvard Theological Review's latest issue, featuring articles concerning the papyrus from a list of reputable scholars. It seems that the papyrus has proved to be ancient and that there is more evidence suggesting that the text itself may also be ancient. I have remained very quiet about all of this until now but will respond shortly to the website and HTR journal articles once I have had time to read them all.
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Jörg Frey
4/10/2014 03:20:13 am
Just one hint: The heading is somewhat misleading: "Ancient" means, according to one of the material investigations: "a date of origination for the piece of papyrus from 659 to 859 CE" - this is at least the latest period af Late Antiquity, or even early Medieval... But it is quite clear then, that such a writing is not a sensationally early Gospel text... One should be more accurate, even in headings.
Brice C. Jones
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4/10/2014 03:47:20 am
Dear Professor Frey, I agree. I was not particularly aiming at terminological precision. I was more or less aiming to say that the text is not a modern forgery, as many had supposed. But I take your point.
Alin Suciu
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4/10/2014 03:00:02 pm
Brice, you cannot be sure that the text is not a modern forgery.
John E D P Malin
4/11/2014 02:13:39 am
What was the scriptorium that produced it? The papyrus trade collapsed around the late 6th century as I recall.
Alin Suciu
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4/11/2014 04:41:42 am
John, papyrus production did not collapse that early. I think no one ever doubted that the papyrus itself is authentic. The problem is that the forger did not buy an old enough one. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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