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Genre/Form: | True crime stories |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sabar, Ariel. Veritas. New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] (DLC) 2019029680 |
Named Person: | Karen L King; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ. |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ariel Sabar |
ISBN: | 9780385542586 0385542585 |
OCLC Number: | 1117317817 |
Description: | xii, 401 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Rome -- Discovery -- Doubt -- Proofs -- The stranger -- The downturned book of revelations. |
Responsibility: | Ariel Sabar. |
Abstract:
"In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the 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 discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the celibate, all-male priesthood, but the entire 2,000-year history of the faith. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the Gnostic gospels. The "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," as she titled her discovery, was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that there were alternative, and much more inclusive, versions of Christianity from its beginnings. Assigned to write a story about King's find, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar began to unearth disquieting questions about the papyrus. His globe-spanning investigation would lead to a rural hamlet in inland Florida, where he discovered a college dropout with a prophetess wife, a curious past in Germany, and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church. The deeper Sabar dug into the mysteries of the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," the more surreal the story became. VERITAS is at once a surprising detective story, a fascinating journey through the rarefied worlds of Biblical Studies and Egyptology, a piercing psychological portrait of a many-faced con artist, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of ancient paper that appealed to her greatest hopes for Christianity--but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the line between reason and faith"--
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- King, Karen L., -- 1954-
- Jesus Christ -- Words -- Extra-canonical parallels.
- Gospel of Jesus's Wife -- Manuscripts (Papyri) -- Forgeries.
- Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) -- Forgeries.
- Forgery of antiquities.
- Forgery of manuscripts.
- RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- General.
- Jesus Christ.
- Agrapha.