Update 2 (May 2014): A Tyndale House scholar, Christian Askeland, thoroughly debunks the authenticity of the fragment as a forgery on the Tyndale House website following the publication of yet another article on the fragment in the Harvard Theological Review . Update: The authenticity of the Coptic text that supposedly claims Jesus had a wife has been challenged by several experts. But this is not at all surprising; that’s par for the course for scholarship: experts release their findings for review from other experts. My colleague Darrell Bock points out that Huffington Post writer Jaweed Kaleem continued the conversation about the Jesus wife text with reports about suspicions regarding its authenticity . And Kaleem isn’t the only one: Jay Lindsay and Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press reported more of the story on the ABC News website. The current decision by Harvard Theological Review not to publish the fragment just yet probably is not the result of controversy—jus...