{"product_id":"books-veritas-by-ariel-sabar","title":"Veritas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning author Ariel Sabar comes the gripping, true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that engulfed Harvard University.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, Dr Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery. She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus — ‘The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’, as she titled it — in which Jesus called Mary Magdalene ‘my wife’. Her announcement made international headlines. If early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world’s predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eAs debates over the manuscript’s authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His indefatigable search for answers became an international true-crime story, in which, remarkably, he managed to solve the crime. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54426886832401,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781913348304.jpg?v=1787625893","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-veritas-by-ariel-sabar","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}