In an announcement from Rome that seemed scripted by The Da Vinci Code novelist Dan Brown, a Harvard professor stated that an ancient scrap of papyrus mentions Jesus’ wife. The fourth-century fragment ...

Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At least that’s how he appeared when she was growing up. A copy of Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ” painting hung in her home ...

In 2012 scholar Karen King announced the academic discovery of a lifetime: a scrap of papyrus, purportedly from the early days of Christianity, in which Jesus refers to a woman as “my wife.” A ...

Book review: In her fourth novel, The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd embellishes the Gospel story of Christ by giving Jesus a wife named Ana. But her book, just out in paperback, should not ...

Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Pagan PastFrescoes of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the ...

NEW YORK CITY—A recently translated, 1,200-year-old religious text written in the Coptic language tells the story of Jesus' crucifixation in a way that departs significantly from Biblical ...

VERITAS A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife By Ariel Sabar. In 2012, the Harvard scholar Karen King announced what she believed to be an extraordinary discovery: a ...