Ariel Sabar's extraordinary account of the imbroglio surrounding the scrap of papyrus known as the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" begins with Prof. Karen King of the Harvard Divinity School, a scholar best ...

For a moment back in 2012, readers around the world might have thought that Jesus had had a wife. Karen King, an esteemed professor at Harvard University’s Divinity School, made headlines when she ...

Ariel Sabar is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the author of Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.

“Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” by Ariel Sabar. Doubleday, 401 pages. $29.95. During a conference across from the Vatican in 2012, a professor from Harvard ...

A 2nd Century AD papyrus fragment threatened to change the story of Christianity—before it was discovered to be a hoax. The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, recto. The phrase “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife…’” ...

The world of biblical scholarship is the setting for a compelling real-life tale of intrigue and human drama. Bay Correspondent The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed ...

CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN is a writer living in Blacksburg. Be forewarned: You will lose sleep over this book. Journalist Ariel Sabar's story about his father, Yona Beh Sabagha (later Sabar), an Iraqi Jew ...

Starting in 2012, journalist Sabar investigated the story of the infamous Coptic fragment that turned out to be a forgery For a moment back in 2012, readers around the world might have thought that ...

Smithsonian correspondent Ariel Sabar is also the author of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kindle ...

Ariel Sabar is a former staff writer for the *Baltimore Sun* and the* Providence (RI) Journal*. His work has also appeared in the *New York Times*, the *Christian Science Monitor*, the *Washington ...