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Karen L. King / Harvard / AP / Lisette Poole / Ariel Sabar / Christian E. Loeben / The Atlantic The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.
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