Forgery View Also Published, King Still Defends Authenticity
While Coptic is an important language for New Testament text criticism, it isn't really a biblical language and the fragment is not from a biblical text so I was not sure where to post this. Personally, 'though I do not think he was, I would have no problem with Jesus being married, but some (most?) would consider this unorthodox so here goes ...
People who know Coptic much better than me have been almost unanimous in their judgment that this is a forgery. I wonder how well and how long King will defend its authenticity? Probably for the rest of her career.
Which is more important, I mean if I had the time to read up on this or the four blood moons, which should I choose. At least this stuff will have interesting scientific and text historico-critical methodology.
While Coptic is an important language for New Testament text criticism, it isn't really a biblical language and the fragment is not from a biblical text so I was not sure where to post this. Personally, 'though I do not think he was, I would have no problem with Jesus being married, but some (most?) would consider this unorthodox so here goes ...
People who know Coptic much better than me have been almost unanimous in their judgment that this is a forgery. I wonder how well and how long King will defend its authenticity? Probably for the rest of her career.
Which is more important, I mean if I had the time to read up on this or the four blood moons, which should I choose. At least this stuff will have interesting scientific and text historico-critical methodology.
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