The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife: A New Coptic Gospel Papyrus

Resources about the fourth-century papyrus fragment available here are images of the fragment and a translation of the text; information (in question-and-answer format) about the fragment; and a draft of Karen L. King’s article about the gospel papyrus.

Images and Translation

Papyrus fragment: front. Karen L. King 2012

Papyrus fragment: back. Karen L. King 2012

Q&A

1. Does the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife prove that Jesus was married?

2. How do we know this fragment is not a forgery?

3. What is the significance of the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?

4. Who wrote the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?

5. Why is the fragment called the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?

6. What is the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?

7. Where is the fragment from?

8. What language is the fragment written in?

9. What is the approximate date of the material fragment?

10. What is the approximate date when this gospel was composed?

11. When … Read More »