Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

by Ariel Sabar

The Thunder, Perfect Mind, a poem voiced by a female god whose paradoxical self-affirmations King found “incredibly inclusive.”

For hundreds of years, no one knew what became of them. But in the late 1800s, fragments of papyrus bearing traces of these lost scriptures began turning up at archaeological sites and antiquities shops across Egypt.

She made up her mind before so much as translating the fragment herself: Coptic Papyrus 02-11 was a modern forgery.

For as long as Christians have found God in the written word, the written word has given forgers the power to play God.