A New Gospel Fragment Discovered (updated)

So this is actually a year old, but this is the first I remember hearing of it:

In what may eventually prove to be a serious challenge to traditional Christian ideas of the life of Jesus, scholars at Oxford University announced Tuesday the discovery of a previously unknown Gospel fragment among a collection of ancient Egyptian papyri. The single papyrus sheet was found among the collection known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, a horde of ancient texts uncovered in Egypt in the last century. The fragment contains dialogue between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and the words spoken suggest something that can only come as a shock to mainstream Christians: that Jesus and Mary were husband and wife.

Full Story: Liverpool Observer on necessaryprose.com.

(via Vortex Egg).

Update:

See what happens when you post things without reading them first? Here’s the passage in question:

“I expected more from you,” she said. “This is not worthy of me. It is not worthy of us.”

“Worthy of you?” he replied, stepping over to the balustrade and looking out over the moonlight dancing on the Aegean. “If it weren’t for me…” But he didn’t finish the sentence.

“It’s true you saved me,” she said. “But still. These places we stay in. And this food. This was to be our honeymoon.”

“I suppose you think I’m not good enough for you then,” he answered, turning back to her.

There was a bitterness in his tone she’d never heard before. She saw the anger flash in his dark eyes as it did when he spoke of the Pharisees.

“Just a carpenter’s son from Galilee,” he went on. “Not quite worthy of Mary of Magdala. I suppose you’d rather be with those seven devils I drove from you.”

“Yes, sometimes,” she said, taking up the challenge. “Sometimes I miss the devils. At least they had a sense of humor. At least they wouldn’t mix their honeymoon with business. At least with the devils I’d–”

“You can go straight back to them!” he said, cutting her short. “I have come to do my Father’s work, and those who are not willing….” [here the text breaks]

And the story date… April. Oh well.

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  1. Klintron says:

    Ah. Could be, considering it’s from April. I haven’t read through it yet. I was wondering why, after a whole year, no one had heard anything about it yet.

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