Ariel Sabar. (2020). Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Ariel Sabar. 2020. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. Books on Tape.

Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. Books on Tape, 2020.

Ariel Sabar. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2020.

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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.
In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. 
 
Award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’s dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors, Veritas is an exhilarating, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout—and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible.

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   • content: A good story well told cuts across every category of audiobook listening. This remarkable tale of a high-profile fraud combines elements of scripture studies, academic politics, investigative journalism, and true-crime reporting. Narrator Robert Petkoff is pitch-perfect in delivering author Ariel Sabar's examination of "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife," a forged parchment of dubious origin that duped a Harvard professor, made headlines, and here unfolds into a provocative study of the uneasy relationship between fact, belief, and the dedicated pursuit of truth. Petkoff maintains a firm, steady pace for a narrative that some listeners may find too detailed. But it's Sabar's painstaking attention to detail that exposes layer after layer of fraud and self-deception, and in the end provides a compelling and memorable listening experience. D.A.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
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     July 6, 2020
     In this entertaining outing, journalist Sabar (My Father’s Paradise) tells the story of a mysterious scrap of papyrus and the scholar who staked her professional reputation on it. As a writer for Smithsonian magazine, Sabar investigated the story of Harvard professor Karen King and her so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, supposedly discovered in 2012, which quoted Jesus as calling Mary Magdalene “my wife.” If it was in fact an authentic document, it would have unsettled conversations about Jesus’s life, ministry, and relationships. King’s fall comes after carbon dating established the papyrus to be of medieval origin and an article of Sabar’s forced King to retract her claims of authenticity for the “gospel.” In the second half of the book, Sabar allows himself to emerge as a character in his own right—the hero who ferrets out fraudster Walter Fritz, who fabricated documents of authenticity for the papyrus fragment and had fooled some of the brightest minds in biblical studies. Sabar’s narrative can be challenging to follow at times, in part because of the large cast that spans centuries, and also due to a frustrating aimlessness about exactly what mystery Sabar sees as central to his narrative: how the fraud happened, or the reasons—political, financial, and psychological—people were carried away by it. Still, this meticulous account is packed with enough intrigue to keep readers piqued.

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