Do We Know Who “the Woman Fallen Into Many Sins” Was?
On Great Tuesday, in the evening, the troparion of Kassiani is sung in Orthodox Churches. This is a poetic rendition of the event described in the Gospels where a sinful woman shows her repentance by laving Christ’s feet with precious ointment and wiping them with her hair.
Jesus’ Wife?
An announcement about an ancient text in which Jesus is reported to have spoken about “my wife” has received extensive attention in the media. The text comes from a small papyrus fragment about 1×3 inches in size, judged to be of the fourth century AD, which apparently had broken off from a larger page […]