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

by Ariel Sabar

Book Overview

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385542585
• ISBN13: 9780385542586
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Non-Fiction that Reads like Fiction

This book a story that shows what happens when theological aspirations collide with sloppy historical research. When historians start with their conclusions and select only the evidence to support them the result can be dangerous. A factual account that is more enthralling than most novels.