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

by Ariel Sabar

where others brawled, King maneuvered. On the rare occasions she entered the fray, she had a plan that was already several steps ahead of the opposition. It was how she persuaded the childhood church she’d rejected to sponsor her senior-year trip to Norway. It was how she used a West German government scholarship to fund research in communist East Germany. It was how, as a professor, she made the leap from second-tier California college to the world’s most illustrious university with just one book to her name: her dissertation, published twelve years after graduation and in the nick of time, by a press in which she was a board member and investor. And it was how she conducted herself at Harvard, including her bid to eject Depuydt’s rebuttal from the Harvard Theological Review on the basis of unspecified “commitments” to scientists whose conflicts of interest she failed to disclose.