M.J. Rose

I’m fascinated with the little scrap of papyrus they found that suggests Jesus was married (perhaps to Mary Magdalene?). We already knew this in our gut though, right? Why wouldn’t Jesus have been married?

Or, could it be that the words “My wife” are in reference to the holy church? The debate will no doubt go on and on…

Here is one perspective:

‘Proof’ Jesus was married found on ancient papyrus that mentions how son of God spoke of his wife and Mary Magdalene

By DAMIEN GAYLE

“A recently uncovered fragment of ancient papyrus makes the explosive suggestion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were man and wife, researchers say.

The 8cm by 4cm fragment supports an undercurrent in Christian thought that undermines centuries of Church dogma by suggesting the Christian Messiah was not celibate.

The centre of the fragment contains the bombshell phrase where Jesus, speaking to his disciples, says ‘my wife’, which researchers believe refers to Magdalene…”

Read more here.

And here is an interview with the woman who discovered Jesus’s “wife”.

The character Jac L’Etoile in The Book of Lost Fragrances studies mythology – it is her life’s work to find the truth behind myths. She would be extremely interested in the following article from the Sunday Review:

If Achilles Used Facebook…
By PADRAIG MAC CARRON

WHEN we pick up a mythological text like “The Iliad” or “Beowulf,” we like to imagine that the societies they describe existed. Even if the stories are fiction, we believe that they tell us something about ancient Greece or the Anglo-Saxons, and that some of the characters and events were based on reality.

Archaeological evidence suggests that at least some of the societies and events in such stories did exist. But is there other evidence, lurking perhaps within the ancient texts themselves?…

For the complete piece click here.

Our moon is a true enigma that baffles even modern astronomers –

How The Moon Was Born

world-mysteries.com

“How scientists believe our moon came into existence.

Several mechanisms have been proposed for the Moon’s formation 4.527 ± 0.010 billion years ago, some 30–50 million years after the origin of the Solar System. These included the fission of the Moon from the Earth’s crust through centrifugal force, which would require too great an initial spin of the Earth, the gravitational capture of a pre-formed Moon, which would require an unfeasibly extended atmosphere of the Earth to dissipate the energy of the passing Moon, and the co-formation of the Earth and the Moon together in the primordial accretion disk, which does not explain the depletion of metallic iron in the Moon. These hypotheses also cannot account for the high angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system…”

So, what really happened? And how did the ancient Sumerians know so much about it thousands of years ago? Read the complete article here.

An idea! If You Blog:  Why not write a post about the mysteries you have encountered recently?  Send a trackback to this blog and leave a comment below so we can share the mystery!

This post was written by Emily, co-editor of the blog.