‘Veritas’ Asks How A Respected Scholar Could Be Duped By A Bumbling Fraudster

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus

Author Ariel Sabar explores the lives of Harvard’s Karen King and of Walter Fritz, the porn producer who convinced her the papyrus fragment he gave her — “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” — was genuine.

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Author Ariel Sabar explores the lives of Harvard’s Karen King and of Walter Fritz, the porn producer who convinced her the papyrus fragment he gave her — “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” — was genuine.