A new book, The Lost Gospel, comes out tomorrow. It claims things that we’ve heard before — that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had two children. . The book is six years in the making and based on a 1,500 year-old Aramaic manuscript they say they found in a British library.
From the introduction:
“There is now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene and that they had children together. … Gathering dust in the British library is a document that takes us into the missing years of Jesus’ life. … According to the document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone’s theology.”
A number of religious scholars have dismissed the assertions, but the findings in this book sound new and very interesting.