Via the Catholic Register — because the other sites that have this story, the Atlantic and Breitbart, have multiple flash animations that annoy me — is a story of fraud. A Harvard theologian, feminist and liberal version, claimed to have a papyrus that said Jesus had a wife. Which came from a forger. It has no provenance, no chain of ownership.
One of the basic rules of scholarship is to go to the source. To mistrust transcriptions and translations. See the original, test it, read the history of the document. This is why we preserve the Treaty of Waitangi, the US declaration of independence, and the Great Charters of English Law. So we can check the text against the original.
To make it even more interesting, the person King obtained the text from was a pimp, a pornographer and an occultist.
In addition, Fritz’s explained that his wife was clairvoyant, prophetic and gifted at spiritual channeling, having channeled the voices of angels since she was 17. She could also lapse unannounced into long recitations of what Fritz assumed was Aramaic, the language of Jesus. It was not a language she had ever learned.
Sabar contacted Professor King to update her on the surprising news he had uncovered so far. She said she wasn’t interested in what he found and told him she would read his article when it hit the streets. So much for intellectual curiosity.
Eventually Fritz admitted to Sabar he was busted, so he made a proposition. Like a classic con-man, Fritz simply redirected the conversation away from the problem at hand with an allegorical shiny apple. He asked Sabar if he might be interested in working with him on a new book, a thriller on the Mary Magdalene angle of Jesus’ life and the “suppression of the female element” in the Church. Sabar would do the writing. Fritz would do the leg work on the details of the story. Fritz assured him the book would make a “million dollars in the first month or so.” Sabar was mystified that Fritz believed he could turn the man who was going to obliterate his scam into a partner on a book that already famously existed. Sabar ends his article with these two lines:
Fame and fortune would rain down on me, he’d promised. All I had to do was lower my guard and trust him with all the important details.
Sabar must clearly know the power of the imagery he created here, even if most of his readers don’t. Fritz was trying to change and challenge the reliability of God’s Word. And as Satan did with Jesus during his temptations, Fritz promised Sabar the riches of the world if he would just play along in his deception.
For this foolish professor, the narrative trumped scholarship. It did not matter that the text was a fraud. What mattered is that it fitted her feminist ideas that subverted the gospels. She wanted to tear Christ down and put a feminine mystery — Asherah or Aphrodite — in its place, while calling that Christian.
For if you fear not God, foolishness will find you.
“Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place for gold that they refine.
Iron is taken out of the earth,
and copper is smelted from the ore.
Man puts an end to darkness
and searches out to the farthest limit
the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;
they are forgotten by travelers;
they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread,
but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
Its stones are the place of sapphires,
and it has dust of gold.“That path no bird of prey knows,
and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.
The proud beasts have not trodden it;
the lion has not passed over it.“Man puts his hand to the flinty rock
and overturns mountains by the roots.
He cuts out channels in the rocks,
and his eye sees every precious thing.
He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle,
and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.“But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
Man does not know its worth,
and it is not found in the land of the living.
The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’
and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
It cannot be bought for gold,
and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,
in precious onyx or sapphire.
Gold and glass cannot equal it,
nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal;
the price of wisdom is above pearls.
The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,
nor can it be valued in pure gold.“From where, then, does wisdom come?
And where is the place of understanding?
It is hidden from the eyes of all living
and concealed from the birds of the air.
Abaddon and Death say,
‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’“God understands the way to it,
and he knows its place.
For he looks to the ends of the earth
and sees everything under the heavens.
When he gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned the waters by measure,
when he made a decree for the rain
and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
then he saw it and declared it;
he established it, and searched it out.
And he said to man,
‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”(Job 28 ESV)
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Wisdom allows one to see evil before it comes.
This does not relate to credentials. Given the nonsense that is coming from may Ivy League colleges, an elite degree is now a mark of being converged, the |||mark of the fool|||. It is time to not go there. Use your young adult years to obtain skills.
For wisdom is a gift of God. You can obtain in by the spirit, or, like this blogger, have but a little, learned from pain and trials and difficulties.
You will not find it in the University Lecture hall. You may find it in the dusty tomes in the library stacks. Those that, if quoted, will ensure you fail that course.
For the university no longer seeks wisdom. It seeks the narrative, and is now converged. Flee it.
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