The “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” and the State of Modern Scholarship
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/april-web-only/gospel-of-jesus…
Can someone, on the basis of this fragment, say, “A-ha! So now we know Jesus was married”?
No, that’s an illegitimate move. [This document is] so far removed from the first century that this rather reflects the speculations a later sect had about the earthly Jesus.
In the Coptic, the phrase really says, “Jesus said to them, ‘My woman…’” It could mean “woman” in the generic sense, but I think it just means his wife. The word is chime, which in this context, I think, means “wife.” And then it goes on to say, “she will be my disciple.” To me, this seems most reminiscent of another text dated to the third century AD, called The Gospel of Philip.
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