Был ли Христос женат?
Профессор Карен Кинг из Гарварда обнаружила неизвестный папирус, доказывающий, что ранние христиане верили, что Иисус был женат. Надпись на небольшом фрагменте писчей бумаги размеров 7,5 см на 4 см гласит: «И сказал Ииисус: моя жена». Отрывок с четырьмя словами, ставшими материалом научного открытия, обнаружился в одной из частных коллекций после того, как ее владелец обратился к Кинг с просьбой перевести и расшифровать надпись, сообщает Harvard Gazette.
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Коллеги Кинг из Нью-Йорка и Иерусалима уже признали ее находку подлинной, однако окончательно судьба папируса станет ясна лишь после исследования химического состава чернил.
http://www.ridus.ru/news/45968/
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies today.
King, the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, announced the existence of the ancient text at the congress’ meeting, held every four years and hosted this year by the Vatican’s Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome. The four words that appear on the fragment translate to “Jesus said to them, my wife.” The words, written in Coptic, a language of Egyptian Christians, are on a papyrus fragment of about one and a half inches by three inches
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Roger Bagnall, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York City, believes the fragment to be authentic based on examination of the papyrus and the handwriting. Ariel Shisha-Halevy, a Coptic expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, considers it likely to be authentic on the basis of language and grammar, King said. Final judgment on the fragment, King said, depends on further examination by colleagues and further testing, especially of the chemical composition of the ink.
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The gospel of which the fragment is but a small part, which King and Luijendijk have named the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife for reference purposes, was probably originally written in Greek, the two professors said, and only later translated into Coptic for use among congregations of Coptic-speaking Christians. King dated the time it was written to the second half of the second century because it shows close connections to other newly discovered gospels written at that time, especially the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Philip.
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The main topic of the dialogue between Jesus and his disciples is one that deeply concerned early Christians, who were asked to put loyalty to Jesus before their natal families, as the New Testament gospels show. Christians were talking about themselves as a family, with God the father, his son Jesus, and members as brothers and sisters. Twice in the tiny fragment, Jesus speaks of his mother and once of his wife — one of whom is identified as “Mary.” The disciples discuss whether Mary is worthy, and Jesus states that “she can be my disciple.”
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 ... ied-jesus/
На мой взгляд, вопрос очевиден, Христос обязательно должен был быть женат.
И я рад, что наконец-то появляются документальные свидетельства этого.
Надеюсь, это приведет к пересмотру некоторых догм, с очевидностью, привнесенных в христианство позднее, и приведших к вытеснению из него женского начала.
