NT Pod 90: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed?

NT Pod 90, "How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed?", is the final episode in in the series of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 90: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus' Wife, Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, July/August 2016 Issue

To Catch a Forger (Video), Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, June 22 2016, YouTube (extracts featured in this episode)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version, January 2017 to present)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, June to December 2016 site, via archive.org): "Statement from HDS Dean David N. Hempton on the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes links to all the resources discussed in the podcast)

Harvard Theological Review 107/2 (April 2014) (Titles and Abstracts)

New Testament Studies 61/3 (July 2015) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Owner's Interlinear / Translation (via archive.org)

"Gospel of Jesus' Wife": Doubts Raised About Ancient Text, Owen Jarus, Live Science (April 22 2014)

More on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife and Walter Fritz, Christian Askeland, Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog, June 16 2016

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Likely a Fake, Bizarre Backstory Suggests, Owen Jarus, Live Science (June 17 2016)

Karen King Responds to ‘The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife’, "The Harvard scholar says papyrus is probably a forgery", Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, June 16 2016

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NT Pod 89: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved?

NT Pod 89, "How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved?", is the third of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 89: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes links to all the resources discussed in the podcast)

Harvard Theological Review 107/2 (April 2014) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Forgery of the Lycopolitan John (Christian Askeland)

New Testament Studies 61/3 (July 2015) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Owner's Interlinear / Translation (via archive.org)

Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Revelation or a Hoax? (Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe)


Thanks to Ram2000, "Me and You", for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons agreement.

NT Pod 88: Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?

NT Pod 88, "Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?" is the second of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 88: Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

Testing Indicates "Gospel of Jesus's Wife" to be Ancient (April 2014)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes Francis Watson's and Andrew Bernhard's posts)

Alleged 'Lost Gospel' Claims Jesus Had Wife, 2 Children (Good Morning America, November 2014; extracted in the intro.)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Smithsonian Documentary (extracted in the outro).


Thanks to Ram2000, "Me and You", for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons agreement.

NT Pod 87: What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife?

NT Pod 87, "What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife?" is the first of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over twelve minutes long.


NT Pod 87: What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Smithsonian Documentary (extract from this in intro).

Jesus said to the, "My wife" (extract from this is played in the episode)

Thanks to Ram2000, "Me and You", for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons agreement.

NT Pod 86: In Conversation with Chris Keith

NT Pod 86 offers a conversation with Chris Keith. It is just under forty minutes long.

NT Pod 86: In Conversation with Chris Keith (mp3)

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London. He is the author of The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2020), Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (T&T Clark, 2011), and The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus (Brill, 2009).

In the podcast, we discuss some of Prof. Keith's work, and focus especially on the volume he co-edited with Anthony Le Donne, Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity (T&T Clark, 2012).

You can follow Prof. Keith on twitter at at chriskeith7.

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NT Pod 85: What is Sourceomania?

NT Pod 85 asks "What is Sourceomania". It is thirteen minutes long.

NT Pod 85: What is Sourceomania (mp3)



See also: NT Blog: Sourceomania

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NT Pod 84: Occam's Razor and Q

NT Pod 84 discusses Occam's Razor and Q. It is 20 minutes long.

NT Pod 84: Occam's Razor and Q (mp3)



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NT Pod 83: Who Wrote the Gospels? And When?

NT Pod 83 asks "Who wrote the Gospels, and when?" It is 21 minutes long.

NT Pod 83: Who wrote the Gospels, and when? (mp3)



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NT Pod 82: What are the Gospels?

NT Pod 82 asks "What are the Gospels?". It is 24 minutes long.

NT Pod 82: What are the Gospels? (mp3)




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NT Pod 81: Albert Schweitzer & the Quest of the Historical Jesus

NT Pod 81 discusses "Albert Schweitzer and the Quest of the Historical Jesus". It is 22 minutes long.

NT Pod 81: Albert Schweitzer & the Quest of the Historical Jesus (mp3)

Key texts: Matt. 10.23, Mark 15.34 // Matt. 27.46.

The episode features brief clips from British Pathé News (Schweitzer in Cambridge) and the Albert Schweitzer Documentary.

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NT Pod 80: Christmas in John's Gospel

NT Pod 80 asks about Christmas in John's Gospel. It is just over thirteen minutes long.



NT Pod 80: Christmas in John's Gospel (mp3)

Key texts: John 1.1-18; John 1.14; John 1.45-6; John 18.5, 7; John 19.19, John 1.29, John 3.24, 6.42, 7.42; Matthew 2.4-6; Luke 2.4, 11.

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NT Pod 79: Santhome Basilica

The NT Pod is back on the road! Episode 79 was recorded at Santhome Basilica in Mylapore, Chennai, India. It is twelve minutes long.



NT Pod 79: Santhome Basilica (mp3)

Programme notes are available on the NT Blog here:

NT Blog: St Thomas Basilica

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NT Pod 78: Little Mount

The NT Pod is back on the road! NT Pod 78 visits Little Mount, Chennai, India, and looks at the traditional place of Thomas's martyrdom. It is just over twelve minutes long.



NT Pod 78: Little Mount (mp3)

Programme notes are available on the NT Blog here:

NT Blog: Little Mount

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NT Pod 77: St Thomas Mount

NT Pod 77 takes the podcast on the road to St Thomas' Mount, Chennai, India. It is just over fourteen minutes long.



NT Pod 77: St Thomas Mount (mp3)

Key texts: John 20.24-29

Show notes are available on the NT Blog: St Thomas Mount.

Would you like to hear more "on the road" episodes of the NT Pod? Please let us know!

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NT Pod 76: The Magi in Matthew's Gospel

NT Pod 76 discusses The Magi in Matthew's Gospel. It is 14 minutes long.



NT Pod 76: The Magi in Matthew's Gospel (mp3)

Key texts: Matthew 2.1-12

Clips: Johnny Cash reads Matthew's Gospel; Ella Fitzgerald, "We Three Kings"; The Mediaeval Baebes, We Three Kings.

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NT Pod 75: The Passion (BBC, 2008)

NT Pod 75 discusses BBC's The Passion. It is just under twenty-five minutes long.



NT Pod 75: BBC's The Passion (mp3)


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NT Pod 74: Jesus The Movie (1999)

NT Pod 74 discusses Jesus (dir. Roger Young, 1999). It is 27 minutes long.



NT Pod 74: Jesus The Movie (1999) (mp3)


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NT Pod 73: Who were Jesus' brothers & sisters?

NT Pod 73 asks "Who were Jesus' brothers and sisters?"  It is about 15 minutes long.



NT Pod 73: Who were Jesus' brothers and sisters? (mp3)

Key texts: Mark 3.31-35, Mark 6.3, 1 Cor. 9.5, 1 Cor. 15.7, Gal. 1-2

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NT Pod 72: Son of God Movie

NT Pod 72 discusses Son of God, which was released in US cinemas on 28 February 2014.  It is twenty minutes long.



NT Pod 72: Son of God Movie (mp3)

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