The Lord be with you
Easter is fast a
pproaching and along with it will come Easter specials on television. Among these specials will be assertions that Jesus had a wife. The typical candidate is Mary Magdalene. There is a modern forgery of a document commonly called the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife that uninformed television personalities and so-called scholars cite for proof. The most recent edition of Concordia Theological Quarterly has an informative short article by Dr. Charles Gieschen titled: “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: An Obituary for a Forgery.” In it you will discover why we know the document is a forgery; the overwhelming scholarly opinion concerning the so-called “gospel” fragment; and the history of how this forgery was foisted upon an unsuspecting general population. To read the article, just follow this link:
http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/GieschenTheGospelofJesusWifeAnObituaryforaForgery.pdf