Evidence of Jesus being Married?

by cantleave 58 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Band on the Run

  Phizzy,

  It has taken the NT world by storm. Prof. King acquired it more than one year ago. Most people in the field believed it was a forgery. Several items in the document are suspicious. Scholars have written journal articles about, if true, what "wife" might mean. It is hard to tell because it is a short fragment. NT scholars were curious as to why someone with King's reputation and Harvard would back such a document. The document was considered too short to conduct scientific tests. New technology allowed it.

  MIT, Columbia, and other schools found it authentic. This was the big surprise. One school, WVU or VA, had strange results, dating it four or five centuries later than the others. Four or five independent schools agreed it was genuine. So about six samples were taken from a fragment.

  It is a very big deal in the NT world. Where is the rest of the document? I skimmed about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic gospel find at Nag Hammadi.The stories of how these items are found, the creation of international committees, the politics within the international committees, and the final research works are thrillers.

  Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and now this reference to a "wife" will lead to more popular books and academic articles. I never saw what was so alluring about Jesus not being fully human. The Roman Catholic crowd is not going to like this find. This is racy stuff. It will sell.
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  LongHairGal

  cantleave:

  I am of the mind that Jesus was married. There was loads of folklore about it long before that novel and movie ever came on the scene.
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  Vidiot

  In the Gospels, Jesus' opponents jumped on every conceivable excuse or pretext to try and discredit him.

  Being unmarried in your early 30s in Jewish culture in the 1st Century AD was considered really weird at the time (from what I've read), so the fact that they didn't criticize his (alleged) singleness is telling, IMO.
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  L3G

  If you're really interested, try these:

  http://markgoodacre.org/Watson.pdf
  
  http://www.livescience.com/34256-gospel-jesus-wife-fake-forgery.html
  
  http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86511
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  Band on the Run

  I am going to find King's paper. It would be nice if the NYT had a link.
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  cofty

  I wonder if the wedding feast at Cana was JCs own nuptials.

  Why else would he be at a wedding with all his friends and family and why would his mother be fussing about the wine running out?

  Celibacy is a later development. Imagine setting up a virgin mother as the ideal woman! How perverse is that?
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  Band on the Run

  A prof told me that the Virgin Mary was not a big deal until around 1,000 A.D. The Christian world believed it was time for Armageddon and the Second Coming. People were frantic about their sins. They wanted a forgiving figure, a mother.

  When I was a student editor, the Board of Ed seized the last issue of the newspaper. We wrote something neutral about the Virgin Mary in the course of doing a parody. They sent out special trucks to pick up the issues. All the editors refused to sign an apology. I knew it would be funny some day.
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  Band on the Run

  Oh, I visited the Harvard Divinity School's website. Oh, how I wish I could attend. There are many resources that people here might find interesting. Material from Prof. King is posted. I don't know if it is marketing or the actual paper. Why do some people end up at Harvard Divinity School and other people end up at the local KH? I choose HDS.
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  snowbird

  John 2 On Tuesday, there was a wedding at Kanah in the Galil; and the mother of Yeshua was there. 2 Yeshua too was invited to the wedding, along with his talmidim. 3 The wine ran out, and Yeshua’s mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” 4 Yeshua replied, “Mother, why should that concern me? — or you? My time hasn’t come yet.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Now six stone water-jars were standing there for the Jewish ceremonial washings, each with a capacity of twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Yeshua told them, “Fill the jars with water,” and they filled them to the brim. 8 He said, “Now draw some out, and take it to the man in charge of the banquet”; and they took it. 9 The man in charge tasted the water; it had now turned into wine! He did not know where it had come from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. So he called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone else serves the good wine first and the poorer wine after people have drunk freely. But you have kept the good wine until now!” 11 This, the first of Yeshua’s miraculous signs, he did at Kanah in the Galil; he manifested his glory, and his talmidim came to trust in him. 12 Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K’far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.

  The Complete Jewish Bible
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  cofty

  Its cute that you think that is an authority on truth Snowbird