The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: Textual Evidence of Modern Forgery*
The present essay summarises textual evidence indicating that the Gospel of Jesus' Wife is essentially a patchwork' of words and short phrases culled from the lone extant Coptic manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas (Nag Hammadi Codex ii), prepared by a forger using Michael W. Grondin's...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 335-355 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Evangelium der Frau Jesu
/ Forgery
/ Gospel of Thomas
/ Coptic language
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAA Church history KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa |
Further subjects: | B
Jesus' Wife
B Gospel B fake B Forgery B Fragment |
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Summary: | The present essay summarises textual evidence indicating that the Gospel of Jesus' Wife is essentially a patchwork' of words and short phrases culled from the lone extant Coptic manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas (Nag Hammadi Codex ii), prepared by a forger using Michael W. Grondin's 2002 PDF edition of this manuscript. The text contains at least five tell-tale signs of its modern origin, including the apparent replication of a typographical (and grammatical) error from Grondin's edition. A direct link between it and Grondin's work also seems to be confirmed by the earliest known English translation of the fragment. |
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ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688515000077 |