Controversial New Text About Jesus

[Thats my opinion]

13. A colleague and neighbor of mine has examined the fragment and has concluded that it is a forgery.

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As an internationally known Coptic scholar, she cites 10 reasons for her conclusion, after having seen only photographys of the material..
Here are just four:
1-The handwriting cannot come from the 4th century, since some of the letters have no parallels in other 4th century writings.
2-Given customs of the day, Jesus would never have referred to a woman as "my wife."
3-This square piece is obviously a scrap on its own, and not a fragment of a larger text.
4-To this date there is no record of who owned the material or where it came from.

The other reasons are more esoteric and require some considerable knowledge of the Coptic language and how manuscript evidence is deduced from scraps or fragments.