Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, a Harvard University professor says. Karen King, a professor of divinity at the university, told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies on September 18 in Rome that she is awaiting further test results to help confirm the object's authenticity. The four words on the fragment translate to, "Jesus said to them, my wife." The words, written in Coptic, a language of ancient Egyptian Christians, are on a papyrus fragment of about 1½ by three inches. "Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said. "This new gospel doesn't prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about...
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