A scrap of papyrus dated to the fourth century has written on it in the ancient Coptic language, “Jesus said to them, my wife,” reopening the debate about whether Jesus was married, as some ...

Other fragmentary texts, such as the Gospel of Mary, were discovered well before that. But in 2004, Rodolphe Kasser of the University of Geneva announced in Paris that by the end of 2005 he would be ...

Those words, written in a language of ancient Egyptian Christians, translate to "Jesus said to them, my wife," King said in a statement.

Although Coptic, the descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, had ceased to be a living language, it still existed in a fossilised form in the liturgy of the Christian Coptic Church.

COPTIC AND NUBIAN MANUSCRIPTS FOUND; A Discovery in Egypt of Great Archaeological Importance. THE NUBIAN MS. IS UNIQUE Only Fragments In That Language Hitherto Known -- Palaeolithic Vessels ...

Harvard Theological Review has withdrawn the paper describing the Gospel of Jesus' Wife from their January issue to allow independent tests of its authenticity.