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12 Nov 2014
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| Professor Barrie Wilson (L) and Israeli-Canadian author Simcha Jacobovici pose during a press conference for the launch of the book 'The Lost Gospel' in London on November 12, 2014 (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis) |
London
(AFP) - A new book was launched in London on Wednesday claiming to have fresh
evidence that Jesus married and had children with Mary Magdalene, but it drew
derision from some quarters.
The authors
of "The Lost Gospel" make their claims based on a new translation
they have made of an ancient manuscript held in the British Library, and two
accompanying letters.
The
manuscript, "Joseph and Aseneth", elaborates on the story of Joseph
as recounted in the Book of Genesis and is thought to date back to the sixth
century.
Simcha
Jacobovici, an Israeli-Canadian documentary filmmaker, and Canadian academic
Barrie Wilson say they found a code in the document and believe it refers to
Jesus.
"It
presents the courtship, marriage, children and an attempt on his life in coded,
symbolic terms," they said in a statement.
"Because
the early years of the Church were so rife with conflict, important manuscripts
were disguised in this way to protect it from those who sought to alter or
destroy it."
Critics
have rounded on the new book, which is accompanied by a television documentary.
The Church
of England dismissed the claims, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of church
history at Oxford University, told AFP they were based on a "mistaken
reading" of the text.
"What
they've tried to do is say it's an allegory of the life of Jesus. But it
isn't," he said.
Wilson, a
professor of religious studies at York University in Toronto, dismissed the
"off-the-cuff negative comments", saying they were motivated by
"theological protectionism".
An ancient
piece of papyrus found in 2012 contained a mention of Jesus' wife but did not
name her. It too caused a stir, as Christian tradition has long held he was not
married.
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Answer: Dear ones, we posture this answer with great respect for those who love this Human master. It serves no purpose to give information that would be detrimental to any study or search for the divine by any Human alive. This is why we often do not give you the actual history of some of the masters who walked this earth. We see the search for the divine as the most important thing a Human can do. Even if the facts of history are incorrect, sometimes the benefits of the search still bring the Human into the light and into the realization that God is inside us all.
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