Did Jesus have a wife?
By: Leslie Draffin
Updated: September 19, 2012
A Harvard professor unveiled
a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text
quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.
Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the
text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he
identifies as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a
gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century.
King helped translate and unveiled the tiny fragment at a
conference of Coptic experts in Rome. She said it doesn't prove Jesus was
married but speaks to issues of family and marriage that faced Christians.
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