Did Jesus have a wife? For a brief moment, a tiny piece of ancient-looking papyrus appeared to offer extraordinary new evidence.
The so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife was unveiled by a Harvard scholar and made headlines around the world. But there was a problem: the fragment was almost certainly a modern forgery.
New Testament scholar Stephen Carlson joins Mike Bird to uncover the extraordinary story behind the papyrus. How did suspicious Coptic, material copied from the internet and a mysterious collector eventually expose the hoax?
And what does the scandal reveal about money, academic ambition and confirmation bias? Carlson and Bird explore why even experts can be vulnerable when a discovery appears to confirm exactly what they hoped to find.
History’s Last Stand with Mike Bird.
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