The Gospel of Jesus' Wife

[porphyry]

 From Depuydt's analysis in the current HTR:

 

"I believe that there can only be one explanation for the complete dependence of 

the Text on the Gospel of Thomas: forgery. What other motive could there be for 

taking, for example, the text of the US Declaration of Independence, picking out a 

few phrases here and there, and changing a new resulting composite text slightly 

so that it says something different from what the original text says, perhaps even 

that the British actually won the war?"

 

This comparison may through some light on the persuasiveness of his argument:

 

"I believe that there can only be one explanation for the complete dependence of 

the Text on the Gospel of Thomas: forgery. What other motive could there be for 

taking, for example, the text of Mark, picking out a few phrases here and there, 

and changing a new resulting composite text slightly so that it says something

different from what the original text says, perhaps even that Jesus rose from the dead?"