Crazy story! Since Karen King would not give up her source, an investigative reporter for The Atlantic took it upon himself to figure out who her source was. Turns out he's a conman and pornographer (into cuckold porn with his wife, who, incidentally, talks to angels) who had studied Egyptology, and had a "bumbling" grasp in Coptic, which is how most other scholars realized that the fragment was likely a forgery (while King herself reasoned it was the work of a novice scribe). The journalist suggests that King was a mark for a "Jesus' wife" fragment because of her feminist leanings. When asked by the journalist if she was interested in the provenance of the piece, and all of the information that he had acquired on the owner, King replied that she didn't see the point in discussing it. The piece doesn't make King look too good, but it seems like she had it coming.
Here's the original piece from The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...ticle-comments
Here's King's reply to the piece where she admits that she was lied to, and concedes that the fragment is likely a fake, but that she still wants to see scientific proof or a confession before taking a definitive stance () http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...s-wife/487484/
Here's an article from Live Science that offers up some interesting information after the fact, as well as their own findings. http://www.livescience.com/55110-gos...fe-a-fake.html
I don't know how this will end for King, and it certainly doesn't make Harvard look very good. The story is juicy enough that the Smithsonian could create a new documentary refuting their previous documentary on the subject...
Here's the original piece from The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...ticle-comments
Here's King's reply to the piece where she admits that she was lied to, and concedes that the fragment is likely a fake, but that she still wants to see scientific proof or a confession before taking a definitive stance () http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...s-wife/487484/
Here's an article from Live Science that offers up some interesting information after the fact, as well as their own findings. http://www.livescience.com/55110-gos...fe-a-fake.html
I don't know how this will end for King, and it certainly doesn't make Harvard look very good. The story is juicy enough that the Smithsonian could create a new documentary refuting their previous documentary on the subject...
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