The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of fa...
There was a reference to a Mary. The feminist scholar tried to use the forgery, which has Jesus saying in Coptic something something "my wife..." (before the fragment ended), and using the reference to the Mary to play into the DaVinci Code plot that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
The "Gospel of Jesus Wife" name was pure carnival barking.