Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Sabar, Ariel

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious...
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Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Sabar, Ariel

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

BD$29.97

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

BD$29.97
Author: Ariel Sabar
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.

In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she'd found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife," had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women's leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus.

Award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King's announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar's dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors, Veritas is an exhilarating, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout--and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible.

Author: Ariel Sabar
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780525433897


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About the Author
Ariel Sabar is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is the author of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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