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Historian says piece of papyrus refers to Jesus' wife
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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 58571" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery-220924823.html" target="_blank">Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p>[EXCERPT]</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc"><strong>A sloppy fake</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">However, scholars have identified several peculiarities that have led many to believe the manuscript is a forgery. They say the text was written sometime in the last 50 years, and probably the last decade, upon a blank piece of ancient papyrus that the forger could easily have picked up on the antiquities market.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">First, the writing is sloppy. Compared with authentic Coptic papyri, in which letters are written with varying thickness and subtle curves and details, the letters in the Gospel of Jesus' Wife are formed by rigid, straight strokes of equal thickness. In a YouTube video posted Friday (Sept. 28), Christian Askeland, a Coptic scholar based in Germany, explained that the letters look unnatural, as if written by someone with a very limited knowledge of the language.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">If a forgery, it's clearly not the work of a professional, but Askeland doesn't think it was written by a fourth-century amateur, either. "He's obviously not writing in a really formal kind of way, but he's not doing the kind of idiosyncrasies you see in a typical informal hand or in a semi-literary text or something like that," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Second, several experts have pointed out that the scribe does not seem to have used either of the writing instruments common to the time period: a stylus (Roman metal pen) or a calamus (Egyptian reed pen). The blotchiness of the letters and what look like brushstrokes in one place suggest the author instead used a paintbrush — an unorthodox writing tool in ancient Egypt. (Other experts have countered that the pen may simply have been dull.)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Third, the textual content raises questions. Despite much of the manuscript being cut off, its meaning is "too easy" to decipher, Askeland said. "If you look at which parts of the manuscript have the subject and the verb staring right at us, it's most of the manuscript." The center-alignment of all the key phrases seems atypical.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Askeland concludes, "It is very probable that it's a fake." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Also regarding the textual content of the piece, the New Testament historian Francis Watson of the University of Durham points out that all the snippets in the text except for "my wife" also appear in the Gospel of Thomas, an authentic Coptic gospel that was discovered in Egypt in 1945; the snippets from Thomas have simply been rearranged to create a new meaning. Watson considers it unlikely that an ancient scribe would have borrowed each of his phrases from a contemporary work. "It's much easier to see how a modern compiler with limited ability in Coptic might gratefully avail him- or herself of material extracted from existing Coptic texts," Watson wrote in an article published on his website.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">A translation of the Gospel of Thomas was published in 1956. Watson thinks the Gospel of Jesus' Wife must have been forged sometime since then. "I have a suspicion it's post-2003 as well. That was the year the "Da Vinci Code" was published, and this could have provided the inspiration," he wrote. (In Dan Brown's novel, Jesus is married to Mary Magdalene.) </span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery-220924823.html" target="_blank">CLICK ME TO READ MORE</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 58571, member: 2770"] [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery-220924823.html']Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [EXCERPT] [COLOR=#ccffcc][B]A sloppy fake[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]However, scholars have identified several peculiarities that have led many to believe the manuscript is a forgery. They say the text was written sometime in the last 50 years, and probably the last decade, upon a blank piece of ancient papyrus that the forger could easily have picked up on the antiquities market.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]First, the writing is sloppy. Compared with authentic Coptic papyri, in which letters are written with varying thickness and subtle curves and details, the letters in the Gospel of Jesus' Wife are formed by rigid, straight strokes of equal thickness. In a YouTube video posted Friday (Sept. 28), Christian Askeland, a Coptic scholar based in Germany, explained that the letters look unnatural, as if written by someone with a very limited knowledge of the language.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]If a forgery, it's clearly not the work of a professional, but Askeland doesn't think it was written by a fourth-century amateur, either. "He's obviously not writing in a really formal kind of way, but he's not doing the kind of idiosyncrasies you see in a typical informal hand or in a semi-literary text or something like that," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Second, several experts have pointed out that the scribe does not seem to have used either of the writing instruments common to the time period: a stylus (Roman metal pen) or a calamus (Egyptian reed pen). The blotchiness of the letters and what look like brushstrokes in one place suggest the author instead used a paintbrush — an unorthodox writing tool in ancient Egypt. (Other experts have countered that the pen may simply have been dull.)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Third, the textual content raises questions. Despite much of the manuscript being cut off, its meaning is "too easy" to decipher, Askeland said. "If you look at which parts of the manuscript have the subject and the verb staring right at us, it's most of the manuscript." The center-alignment of all the key phrases seems atypical.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Askeland concludes, "It is very probable that it's a fake." [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Also regarding the textual content of the piece, the New Testament historian Francis Watson of the University of Durham points out that all the snippets in the text except for "my wife" also appear in the Gospel of Thomas, an authentic Coptic gospel that was discovered in Egypt in 1945; the snippets from Thomas have simply been rearranged to create a new meaning. Watson considers it unlikely that an ancient scribe would have borrowed each of his phrases from a contemporary work. "It's much easier to see how a modern compiler with limited ability in Coptic might gratefully avail him- or herself of material extracted from existing Coptic texts," Watson wrote in an article published on his website.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]A translation of the Gospel of Thomas was published in 1956. Watson thinks the Gospel of Jesus' Wife must have been forged sometime since then. "I have a suspicion it's post-2003 as well. That was the year the "Da Vinci Code" was published, and this could have provided the inspiration," he wrote. (In Dan Brown's novel, Jesus is married to Mary Magdalene.) [/COLOR] [URL='http://news.yahoo.com/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery-220924823.html']CLICK ME TO READ MORE[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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