Title: | Mechanism of Mystification and Demystification at the Point of Contact between the Humanities and Science : Case Study of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife |
Authors: | Piwowarczyk, Przemysław |
Keywords: | Gospel of Jesus’ Wife; Karen King; papyrology |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego |
Citation: | B. Bokus, E. Kosowska (ed.), "Truth and falsehood in science and the arts" (S. 36-45). Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego |
Abstract: | The case of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife lays bare all the problems of
research on early Christian manuscripts. We have here a manuscript of unknown
provenance, a private collector wishing to protect his anonymity, an academic
institution hungry for media interest, and, last but not least, the ideological
bias of a scholar. In the end, the manuscript proved to be a modern forgery.
However, we know this without any serious doubt not thanks to laboratory
analyses and more traditional paleographic or historical studies. The issue
was not resolved until a professional journalist conducted a journalistic investigation.
If this method of verification of manuscript authenticity joins the
others, it would be an undisputable benefit of this whole four-year-long saga. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/16458 |
ISBN: | 978-83-235-4220-9 |
Appears in Collections: | Książki/rozdziały (W.Hum.)
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