1,400-year-old manuscript points to Jesus' wife and children, authors say
(The Christian Science Monitor) An ancient text depicts Jesus Christ as having a wife and two children, according to a book due out this week, but academics have been quick to shut down the claim.
Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson lay out in The Lost Gospel that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, pointing to a manuscript from AD 570, according to The Daily Mail.
The manuscript, written in Syriac on vellum, has been in the British Library's archives for 20 years. Scholars who have studied the document over the past 160 years have considered it "pretty unremarkable."
