If the text turns out to be a recent forgery, it would be a big embarrassment for Prof. King, but I don’t think it will destroy her reputation unless it comes out that she knew it was a modern forgery. At this point it looks like she might be gullible, but that’s not nearly as bad as mendacious. If she knew it was a forgery, it would be awfully foolish of her to think the forgery wouldn’t be exposed sooner or later.
Professor King is a feminist trying to rewrite the history of Christianity to the feminist agenda.
So if I wanted to sell a piece of fake papyrus, she’d be an obvious “mark”.
I suspect the paper was real and someone rewrote on it...but until they check the ink we won’t know. Using old paper for forgeries is a common way to “fake” semi experts, as the Mormon letter scandal showed.
She could claim that although it may be a forgery, the information it contains is accurate, ala Dan Rather.
it seemed to work for him to some degree.