Veritas : A Harvard Professor, a con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Ariel Sabar (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525433899
ISBN-139780525433897
eBay Product ID (ePID)21050082558
Product Key Features
Book TitleVeritas : a Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHoaxes & Deceptions, Christian Theology / Anthropology, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, True Crime, History
AuthorAriel Sabar
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-029679
SynopsisFrom 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.
LC Classification NumberBS2970.S235 2020
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