Ariel Sabar
American author and journalist known for narrative nonfiction, including 'My Father's Paradise'—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—and 'Veritas,' about the 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' scandal. His work often explores identity, history, and the ethics of scholarship.
Books
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1. Veritas
A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
An investigative narrative tracing the rise and unraveling of a papyrus fragment that appeared to depict Jesus referring to a wife, from its triumphant academic unveiling to its exposure as a likely forgery. Following both the prominent scholar who championed the fragment and the elusive source who supplied it, the story reveals a web of personal reinvention, digital breadcrumbs, and misdirection. It probes how confirmation bias, institutional prestige, and media fervor can overwhelm skepticism, illuminating the porous boundary between faith and fraud and the vulnerabilities of modern scholarship in the internet age.
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