In April, scientific dating confirmed that papyrus containing references to Jesus having a wife were from ancient times. But new information has emerged to suggest this document could be a forgery.

Ancient Paper Suggests Jesus May Have Been Married Robert Siegel speaks with Elaine Pagels, religion professor at Princeton University, ...

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Harvard journal says “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” is ancient, not a modern forgery. April 10, 2014 More than ...

A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds. The ...

Did Jesus Have A Wife? Newly Discovered Ancient Text Reignites Debate : The Two-Way A Harvard researcher says a "new gospel" written on a fragment of papyrus shows some early Christians believed ...

But one important ancient copy of Mark has a different take entirely: in the oldest surviving Latin gospel Jesus seems to call out to the sun-god Helios instead.

Since the 1970s, hundreds of tombs and thousands of ossuaries, or ancient bone boxes, have been uncovered in the holy land. But one tomb unearthed in Talpiot in 1980 is being looked at differently ...

Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site backs up Biblical account - The discovery of 2,000 year-old olive trees and grapevines are believed to reflect the Gospel of John's account ...

To kill both Jesus and Cicero, those in power needed the help of angry mobs. The Pharisees rallied a seething crowd to demand Jesus’ crucifixion over Pilate’s weak objections.

Jesus had a wife, say scientists, as ancient papyrus scroll verified. The fragment is almost certainly a product of early Christians. Sam Masters. Friday 11 April 2014 22:30 BST. Comments.