<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The DaVinci Code isn't real. Even if so this doesn't mean they were married. Talk about reading into something that isn't there. They didn't know about germs and viruses spreading through the mouth, so it would not be uncommon to kiss people you care about on the mouth. Many affectionate <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">societies</SPAN></SPAN> and families do this <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>among</SPAN></SPAN> same sex friends and even family. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I thought this was already "known" from the Gospel of Philip, one of the New Testament apocrypha from the Nag Hammadi scrolls. It was quoted in The DaVinci Code, too, I think.<WBR><WBR>" <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>59: The wisdom which (humans) call barren is herself the Mother of the Angels.</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=es-PA><B>¹</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>And the companion</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>of the [Christ] is Mariam the Magdalene. The [Lord loved] Mariam more than [all the (other)] Disciples, [and
he] kissed her often on her [mouth].</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=es-PA><B>²</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>The other [women] saw his love for Mariam,</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size=2><SPAN lang=es-PA><B>c</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SUP> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>they say to him: Why do thou love [her] more than all of us? || The Savior</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.metalog.org/files/philip.html#Savior" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>º</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>replied,</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=es-PA><B>³</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt" size=3><SPAN lang=en-US><B>he says to them: Why do I not love you as (I do) her?</B>"<BR><BR>From this web page: http://www.metalog.org/files/philip.html<BR><BR>I'll have to look in my copy of the Nag Hammadi library when I get a chance and see how it's translated there.<BR><BR>The more interesting Apocryphal book, in my opinion, is The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: http://www.gnosis.org/library/inftomb.htm, which covers some of Jesus' life when he was around 8 years old. <BR><BR>Paul<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV>A Harvard historian has identified a faded, fourth-century scrap of papyrus she calls "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife." One line of the torn fragment of text purportedly reads: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …'" The following line states, "she will be able to be my disciple."</DIV>
<DIV>The finding was announced to the public today (Sept. 18) by Karen King, a historian of early Christianity, author of several books about new Gospel discoveries and the Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School. King first examined the privately owned fragment in 2011, and has since been studying it with the help of a small group of scholars.</DIV>
<DIV>According to the <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=2&hp" rel=nofollow target=_blank>New York Times</A>, King and her collaborators have concluded that the business card-size fragment is not a forgery, and she is presenting the discovery today at a meeting of International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome. </DIV>
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<DIV>The fragment, written in Coptic, the language of a group of early Christians in Egypt, has an unknown provenance, and its owner has opted to remain anonymous. Questions about the fragment abound, but scholars say it will nonetheless reignite several old debates: Was Jesus married? If so, was Mary Magdalene his wife? And did he have a female disciple? [<A href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2319-jesus-christ-man-physical-evidence-hold.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Jesus Christ the Man: Does the Physical Evidence Hold Up?</A>]</DIV>
<DIV>Scholars say these controversies date to the early centuries of Christianity, but they remain relevant today. In the Roman Catholic Church, for example, women and married men are barred from priesthood because of the model thought to have been set by Jesus.</DIV>
<DIV>King has cautioned that the new discovery should not be taken as proof that Jesus was actually married. The text appears to have been written centuries after he lived, and all other early Christian literature is silent on the question of his marital status.</DIV>
<DIV>But the scrap of papyrus — the first known statement from antiquity that refers to Jesus speaking of a wife — provides evidence that there was an active discussion among early Christians about whether Jesus was <A href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/666-which-jobs-require-celibacy-.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>celibate</A> or married, and which path his followers should choose, King told the Times.</DIV>
<DIV>"This fragment suggests that some early Christians had a tradition that Jesus was married," she said. "There was, we already know, a controversy in the second century over whether Jesus was married, caught up with a debate about whether Christians should marry and <A href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1607-why-sex-evolved.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>have sex</A>."</DIV>
<DIV>The significance of this fragment was known by scholars previously, and then forgotten. When its current owner acquired it in a batch of papyri in 1997 from its previous owner, a German, it came with a handwritten note. The note cited a now-deceased professor of Egyptology in Berlin as having called the fragment "the sole example" of a text in which Jesus claims a wife.</DIV>
<DIV>According to the Times, papyrologists and Coptic linguists who have studied the artifact thus far say they are convinced by its genuineness by the fading of the ink on the papyrus fibers and the traces of ink adhered to the bent fibers at the edges. The Coptic grammar, handwriting and ideas represented in the text would also have been nearly impossible to forge.</DIV>
<DIV>"It's hard to construct a scenario that is at all plausible in which somebody fakes something like this. The world is not really crawling with crooked papyrologists," Roger Bagnall, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, at New York University, told the <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=2&hp" rel=nofollow target=_blank>New York Times</A>.</DIV>
<DIV>Certain lines of the text resemble snippets from the Gospels of Thomas and Mary, both believed to have been written in the late second century and later translated into Coptic. King surmises that this fragment is also copied from a second-century Greek text.</DIV>Further study will be needed to work out the details, but the meaning of the words "my wife" is beyond question, King said. The text beyond "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …'" is cut off.<WBR><WBR>-- <WBR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<WBR><A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A><WBR><WBR><IMG><WBR><WBR></DIV><WBR>=======================================================<WBR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<WBR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<WBR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" rel=nofollow
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