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020			_a9780385542586 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9780525433897 _q(paperback)
020			_z9780385542593 _q(ebook)
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100	1		_aSabar, Ariel, _eauthor. _993602
245	1	0	_aVeritas : _ba Harvard professor, a con man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife / _cAriel Sabar.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c2020
300			_axii, 401 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 381-385) and index.
505	0		_aAct 1, discovery -- Act 2, doubt -- Act 3, proofs -- Act 4, the stranger -- Act 5, the downturned book of revelations.
520			_a"In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world--if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the celibate, all-male priesthood, but the entire the 2,000-year history of the faith. Biblical scholars were in an uproar, but King had impeccable credentials as a world-renowned authority on female figures in the Gnostic gospels. The "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," as she titled her discovery, was both a crowning career achievement and powerful proof for her arguments that there were alternative, and much more inclusive, versions of Christianity from its beginnings. Assigned to write a story about King's find, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar began to unearth disquieting questions about the papyrus. His globe-spanning investigation would lead to a rural hamlet in inland Florida, where he discovered a college dropout with a prophetess wife, a curious past in Germany, and a tortured relationship with the Catholic Church. The deeper Sabar dug into the mysteries of the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," the more surreal the story became. VERITAS is at once a surprising detective story, a fascinating journey through the rarefied worlds of Biblical Studies and Egyptology, a piercing psychological portrait of a many-faced con artist, and a tragedy about a brilliant scholar handed a piece of ancient paper that appealed to her greatest hopes for Christianity--but forced a reckoning with fundamental questions about the line between reason and faith"-- _cProvided by publisher.
563			_aHB
600	1	0	_aKing, Karen L., _d1954- _993603
600	0	0	_aJesus Christ _xWords _xExtra-canonical parallels. _993604
630	0	0	_aGospel of Jesus's Wife _xManuscripts (Papyri) _xForgeries. _993605
650		0	_aCoptic manuscripts (Papyri) _xForgeries. _993606
650		0	_aForgery of antiquities. _993607
650		0	_aForgery of manuscripts. _993608
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSabar, Ariel. _tVeritas. _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] _z9780385542593 _w(DLC) 2019029680
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