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My Fathers Paradise: A Sons Search for His Familys Past
not to me. My mother gave me life
The disciples said to Jesus,
deny. Mary is (not?) worthy of it
Jesus said to them, My wife
she is able to be my disciple
Let wicked people swell up
As for me, I dwell with her in order to
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Copyright 2020 by Ariel Sabar
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Scribe UK, London.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sabar, Ariel, author.
Title: Veritas: a Harvard professor, a con man and the Gospel of Jesuss Wife / by Ariel Sabar.
Description: First edition. | New York City: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019029679 (print) | LCCN 2019029680 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385542586 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385542593 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : King, Karen L., 1954 | Jesus ChristWordsExtra-canonical parallels. | Gospel of Jesuss WifeManuscripts (Papyri)Forgeries. | Coptic manuscripts (Papyri)Forgeries. | Forgery of antiquities. | Forgery of manuscripts.
Classification: LCC BS 2970 . S 235 2019 (print) | LCC BS 2970 (ebook) | DDC 229/.8dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029679
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029680
Ebook ISBN9780385542593
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We search after truth. We see but in part.
THOMAS HOLLIS,
BENEFACTOR OF HARVARDS HOLLIS CHAIR OF DIVINITY, 1720
On September 18, 2012, a group of international scholars gathered in a building across from the Vatican for an obscure academic conference on Egypts earliest Christians. The weeklong program looked much like those of years past, with highly specialized lectures on Egyptian linguistics, monastery libraries and the wills of abbots. But at 7:00 that evening, the conference lost any semblance of the ordinary. A senior Harvard University professor rose to the lectern to make an astonishing announcement, one that a select group of journalists was at that very moment transmitting across the globe: she had discovered an ancient scrap of papyrus with the power to convulse the Roman Catholic Church.
The professor, a fifty-eight-year-old historian named Karen King, was a well-known and deeply respected figure in the field of biblical studies. Harvard had recently promoted her to its Hollis Professorship of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in America and one of the most prestigious posts in the study of Christianity. She was familiar to the public, too, as a best-selling author and TV commentator on the first centuries of the faith.
But the events of September 2012 would put her in a brighterand cruelerspotlight than any she had known before. In a room overlooking the dome of St. Peters Basilica, King told the audience of elite scholars that she had already given her discovery a name.
I dubbed itjust simply for reference purposesThe Gospel of Jesuss Wife.
NINE MONTHS EARLIER, a middle-aged Florida man settled into a window seat in the first row of a midday Delta Air Lines flight to Bostons Logan International Airport. In his luggage were four tattered scraps of papyrus, one of them small enough to fit in the palm of his hand.
When he arrived at Harvard Divinity School, Karen King gave him a tour of its Gothic grounds. A highlight, for the man, was a row of windows on the top floor of the theological library. The stained glass depicted a goblet-bearing woman, Cupid aiming an arrow, and a half-naked Jesus beneath riven skiesa peculiar patchwork of symbols from heraldry, classical myth and Christianity. He asked Kings permission to take photographs of inscriptions that loped across the tarot-like panels. She didnt quite know what it meant, he thought. But he had a flair for language puzzles, and he took the liberty of reading some of it to her. The medieval German blackletter, an extravagant script, could confound the eye; but the words themselves were banal, just the names of the windows prosperous donorshusbands and wives, now long departed, from some towns near the Swiss-German border. He also answered her questions on a technical point of Middle Egyptian grammar.
He liked the feeling of knowing things she didnt.
I tremendously enjoyed my meeting with her, the man would reflect later. I feel that over the years weve almost become friends.
Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
Dr. Karen Leigh King had reached the summit of her field as a dazzling interpreter of condemned scripture. On her bookshelves at Harvard Divinity School were ancient texts as mysterious as they were startling. Among them were the Sophia of Jesus Christ, the Secret Revelation of John and the Gospel of Judas. The Gospel of Maryas in Magdalenewas a favorite. So was The Thunder, Perfect Mind, a poem voiced by a female god whose paradoxical self-affirmations King found incredibly inclusive.
Such writings were nowhere to be found in the church-sanctioned collection of sacred literature commonly known as the New Testament. Early bishops had rejected them as heresies and sought their eradication. For hundreds of years, no one knew what became of them. But in the late 1800s, fragments of papyrus bearing traces of these lost scriptures began turning up at archaeological sites and antiquities shops across Egypt. The story they told about the earliest centuries of Christianity would force historians to reexamine almost everything they thought they knew about the worlds predominant faith. The more pieces of papyrus the deserts disgorged, the more the official history of Christianitythe master story, as King called itbegan to look like a lie.
To King, these newly unearthed texts were the missing pieces of a Bible that might have been, had history taken a different course. In the suppressed writings of ancient believers she saw a Christianity more open-armed and less taken with violence than the one passed down by the long line of powerful popes and Sunday sermonizers. We are only beginning to construct the pieces of a fuller and more accurate narrative of Christian beginnings, she declared. The dry desert of Egyptian Africa has yielded a feast for the nourishment of the mind and perhaps for the spirit as well.
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