Veritas

From award-winning author Ariel Sabar comes the gripping, true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that engulfed Harvard University. In 2012, Dr Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery. She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus The Gospel of Jesuss Wife, as she titled it in which Jesus called Mary Magdalene my wife. Her announcement made international headlines. If early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the worlds predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and womens leadership. As debates over the manuscripts authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His indefatigable search for answers became an international true-crime story, in which, remarkably, he managed to solve the crime.