re: “Iirc, the parchment in question was dated to the 9th or 10th Century AD.
So all it really proves is that someone from that time period was considering that Jesus may have been married. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Exactly. Agree with you completely.
Thank you.
The more I think about it, the analogy that I come up with is what would someone 1000 years from now think if they just happened to find a fragment of this thread that was somehow propagated into whatever deep electronic archival system they might be using then?
I’d guess the rational and logical ones would start asking questions about context, authoritativeness, presence of other contemporary and prior corroborating material and deviation from that material.
The ones with political axes to grind or an agemda to advance would spin it to whatever advantage they thought it could provide.