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> such as... well... a lot of stuff in this article Can you elaborate on some of these things and provide some reasoning as to why they are markers of inauthen

• lotharbot 10y ago
  The wikipedia article goes into more detail (with less storytelling): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife The short answer is, the manuscript has no traceable history, seems to have come from someone with motive to create a forgery whose story is inconsistent, was presented along with a forged papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, and is physically questionable -- the handwriting, shape of the piece of paper (probably cut recently), the quality of the ink, and even the grammar are suspect. It has some grammatical weirdness that appears in a particular, modern, translation of the Gospel of Thomas and nowhere else.