Veritas Quotes

“We're Christians, not morons," they told him. "We can believe in God and evolution.”
― Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

“The irony isn’t lost on papyrologists: the manuscripts that desert refugees most cherished—the ones they carried to new homes in the cities—vaporized under wet skies and the trample of urban life, while the ones they forsook in the desert endured. It was no surprise that the first papyrus Roger Bagnall translated and published, in an eminent journal, was a late third-century hardware receipt. “This papyrus contains a virtually complete order for nails,” the twenty-one-year-old Bagnall began.”
― Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

“For as long as Christians have found God in the written word, the written word has given forgers the power to play God.”
― Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife