As its subtitle suggests, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife tries to tell at least two intertwined stories: that of the con man who created a fake papyrus with enough words to suggest a tantalizing reference to Jesus being married, and that of the professor who cut many corners to believe she had proof that Christianity should be a lot less sexist than it is.
It’s all very exciting but the detailed investigations into the complicated misdeeds of the con man got into more details than I was interested in. What is surprising is how a Harvard professor can resist the truth so violently and for so long without any apparent consequences on her employment status.
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