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Exploring the Apocrypha at Bible Gateway

If you watched Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony earlier this week, you saw that it started with a prayer offered by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. But did you recognize where in the Bible that prayer came from? [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, CNN: A Catholic Reads the Bible] The inaugural prayer in this case drew from […]

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Did Jesus Have a Wife? The “Jesus Wife Fragment” Story Takes a New Twist

Did Jesus have a wife? Several years ago, controversy surrounded the announcement of a purported ancient manuscript fragment that mentions Jesus’ wife. (You can see the fragment, and read more about it, at the Harvard Divinity School website.) Most scholars at the time responded with skepticism, although the fragment stood up to enough testing that […]

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