Religion

“Swager used infrared spectroscopy, which analyzes the low-frequency light from an object, to see if the ink showed any inconsistencies or variations that would suggest it was a recent forgery,” reports Scientific American’s Marc Lallanilla about new research from MIT, Harvard and Columbia showing the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” is authentic.

Writing in The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports that researchers from MIT, Columbia and Harvard have determined that a fragment of papyrus known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” is likely a relic from an ancient manuscript and not a modern forgery.