REUTERS A noted religious scholar doubts the veracity of a papyrus text that purports to reveal that Jesus had a wife — but includes a typo. The Coptic text from The Gospel of Thomas ...

A newly deciphered Egyptian text, dating back almost 1,200 years, tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal plot twists, some of which have never been seen before. Written in ...

Each page contains two columns of text, fourteen lines per page, with Coptic on the left, and Arabic on the right. The word anaphora is from the Greek αναφορα and means “offering.” It is the prayer in ...

Below the cross are five further lines of Coptic text, parts of which are broken off, rendering it more difficult to decipher. A special team of researchers, Waziri noted, will conduct further ...