Harvard Lycopolitan John – kolejne fałszerstwo? Koptyjski manuskrypt w świetle Ewangelii Żony Jezusa i współczesnych badań
Harvard Lycopolitan John – Another Forgery? A Coptic Manuscript in the Light of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and its Contemporary Examinations

Summary/Abstract: On 18 September 2015, during the International Congress of Coptic Studiesin Rome, Professor Karen L. King from Harvard Divinity School, presented a previouslyunpublished Coptic papyrus fragment, known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. This textwas among the scraps of ancient manuscripts, one of which is known as the HarvardLycopolitan John and contains small fragments from the Gospel of John.In my article I attempt to analyze this second manuscript and demonstrate, on the basis ofvarious scientific examinations performed by contemporary scholars, that the aforementionedGospel of Jesus’ Wife, and also the Harvard Lycopolitan John, are modern creations.Unknown origin of the HLJ, unusual dimensions of the manuscript, dialectal implausibility,linguistic errors, etc. – all these phenomena allow us to treat the Harvard LycopolitanJohn as a forgery, which was faithfully copied from Herbert Thompson’s 1924 editionof the fourth-century Lycopolitan “Qau codex”.

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