A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’ ”
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”
The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at an international meeting of Coptic scholars by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.
Note well that Dr. King stresses that this doesn’t prove Jesus was married; this text was probably written centuries after Jesus died, and none of the other historical texts we have say anything about a wife for Jesus. More:
The notion that Jesus had a wife was the central conceit of the best seller and movie “The Da Vinci Code.” But Dr. King said she wants nothing to do with the code or its author: “At least, don’t say this proves Dan Brown was right.”
Hey, let’s burn something down!
CAROL R. BOWLING SHUMATE 
GCR 
(Yes, that’s a thing!)
Cecelia, thanks, but sometimes I think my irreverence will not be understood as a joke upstairs and then I’ll wind up permanently toasting marshmallows in the olam ha-ba. I’m saving the asbestos pyjamas just in case.
And now it seems Karen has translated an additional scrap of papyrus she found in her disused compact indicating that Mrs. Jesus applied for and got an annulment. Actually, I think it means she got a get. Something to do with her husband and some floozie at a well.