See posts by Christian Askeland here, and more recently here, alleging that the Gospel of John fragment is a blatant fake. And Mark Goodacre has followed on with a posting about the matter here.
For my part, I was surprised and puzzled to learn that the two items sent for Carbon 14 and ink testing were both from the cache of items put into Prof. King’s hands. I had assumed that the testing of the “Jesus’ Wife” fragment had been done alongside a fragment of a papyrus of independent provenance, to use the latter as a control-item for testing ink, etc. Quite…
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