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Scholarly skepticism continues toward the "Jesus' Wife Fragment" even as Smithsonian plans to air positive documentary May 5

In the latest edition of The Weekly Standard, Charlotte Allen, author of The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus, queries whether the investigation into the so-called "Jesus' Wife Fragment" has after all raised more questions concerning the fragment's authenticity than it's answered. Entitled "The Wife of Jesus Tale," Allen writes of the scientific tests on the papyrus itself: [T]he scientific results have raised more questions than they’ve answered, especially within the cohort of scholars who were already convinced that the fragment was a modern forgery. For one thing,... Read more →

Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20 by guest contributor James Snapp, Jr.

A fairly hot topic of discussion when I was in seminary (1980s) was whether the longer ending of Mark's gospel was authentic or a later scribal addition >>> Perhaps the discussion escalated among Southern Baptists during the 1980s because of the flag under which the Conservative Resurgence marched ahead to battle--inerrancy. Whatever the reason for the arisen interest, there has been continual discussion among textual critics concerning many passages in the New Testament. And to be quite honest, perhaps no passage of Holy Writ draws more unity from the broadest... Read more →