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In fact, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's 2003 best selling thriller, was hinged on that very premise: a secret bloodline had sprung from the union between Jesus and Mary.Of course, there have been various discoveries of 'new' gospels over the years and allegations about a romantic relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene have persisted for centuries.Indeed, they have frequently been explored in popular culture. For example, in the Fifties, the book The Last Temptation Of Christ suggested that the pair married after Jesus was taken down from the cross. Martin Scorsese turned the idea into a film of the same name in 1988.However, this new book focuses on a story to be found in a manuscript dating back to 570 AD and written in Syriac a Middle Eastern literary language used between the 4th and 8th centuries and related to Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.Written on vellum treated animal skin it had been in the archives of the British Library for about 20 years, where it was put after the British Museum had originally bought it in 1847 from a dealer who said he had obtained it from the ancient St Macarius Monastery in Egypt.For the past 160 years, the document has been studied by a few scholars but has been considered pretty unremarkable.But then Simcha Jacobovici, an Israeli Canadian film maker, and Barrie Wilson, a professor of religious studies in Toronto, took a look. After six years of study, they are convinced they've uncovered a missing fifth gospel to add to the four gospels, which tell the story of the life of Christ and are said to have been written by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, in the 1st century AD.If true, this would make it the greatest revelation into the life of Jesus in nearly 2,000 years. Jacobovici claims the manuscript, which is 29 chapters long, is a 6th century copy of another 1st century gospel and casts parts of the Bible in a very different light.Later this week, he will present his findings at a conference hosted by the British Library.Like the fictional The Da replica van Yellow Gold necklace Vinci Code, which had its hero scouring works of art for secret, religious messages, the document is in code. According to Jacobovici and Wilson, it tells of Jesus's marriage through the story of the Old Testament character Joseph and his wife Aseneth.Scroll down for videoJacobovici decided to look more deeply into Joseph and Aseneth, when he compared their story with other Old Testament tales.In order to test the British Library documents, the researchers used hi tech digital imaging to photograph them 13 times. They then got the manuscript translated for the first time from Syriac into English.There have been other, later, versions of the Joseph and Aseneth story, written in Latin and Greek, which have been preserved in monasteries. But by returning to the ancient Syriac, Wilson and Jacobovici say it was possible to read the text as it was intended and to decode the hidden story.Central to their claim is that Joseph was actually Jesus and that Aseneth was actually Mary Van Cleef & Arpels necklace imitation Magdalene.The new translation, according to Jacobovici and Wilson, records that the Pharaoh of Egypt officiated at the wedding between the couple, saying to Aseneth: 'Blessed are you by the Lord God of Joseph, because he is the first born of God, and you will be called the Daughter of God Most High and the bride of Joseph now and for ever.'Gospel truth? The manuscriptdating back to 570 AD (above) is written in Syriac a Middle Eastern literary language used between the 4th and 8th centuries and related to Aramaic, the language spoken by JesusAfter a seven day wedding feast, the text is said to read: 'Joseph had intercourse with Aseneth . . . And Aseneth conceived from Joseph and gave birth to Manasseh and his brother Ephraim in Joseph's house.'And so, could centuries of Christian teaching be wrong and that Jesus was a husband and father?There are many, many fake van cleef and arpel necklace more pieces of the jigsaw to be put together before this can be proved conclusively.The theory is based on the claims that this 'lost' gospel and the 'encrypted' story of Jesus's marriage was the work of a group of persecuted Christians. It apparently disappeared from public view around 325 AD.It was at the time that the then Roman emperor Constantine the first Christian emperor was said to have ordered all other gospels to be destroyed, leaving only Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to tell Jesus's story because their version fitted with Constantine's view of Christianity.Mary Magdalene played a prominent role in the two most important moments of Jesus' life, portrayed in Pieta by Sir Anthony van Dyck'Since then, people have found bits and pieces of those other [destroyed] gospels,' says Jacobovici. 'They usually come up through the antiquities market and they're attacked as forgeries. Or they're just a few lines.'
In fact, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's 2003 best selling thriller, was hinged on that very premise: a secret bloodline had sprung from the union between Jesus and Mary.Of course, there have been various discoveries of 'new' gospels over the years and allegations about a romantic relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene have persisted for centuries.Indeed, they have frequently been explored in popular culture. For example, in the Fifties, the book The Last Temptation Of Christ suggested that the pair married after Jesus was taken down from the cross. Martin Scorsese turned the idea into a film of the same name in 1988.However, this new book focuses on a story to be found in a manuscript dating back to 570 AD and written in Syriac a Middle Eastern literary language used between the 4th and 8th centuries and related to Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.Written on vellum treated animal skin it had been in the archives of the British Library for about 20 years, where it was put after the British Museum had originally bought it in 1847 from a dealer who said he had obtained it from the ancient St Macarius Monastery in Egypt.For the past 160 years, the document has been studied by a few scholars but has been considered pretty unremarkable.But then Simcha Jacobovici, an Israeli Canadian film maker, and Barrie Wilson, a professor of religious studies in Toronto, took a look. After six years of study, they are convinced they've uncovered a missing fifth gospel to add to the four gospels, which tell the story of the life of Christ and are said to have been written by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, in the 1st century AD.If true, this would make it the greatest revelation into the life of Jesus in nearly 2,000 years. Jacobovici claims the manuscript, which is 29 chapters long, is a 6th century copy of another 1st century gospel and casts parts of the Bible in a very different light.Later this week, he will present his findings at a conference hosted by the British Library.Like the fictional The Da replica van Yellow Gold necklace Vinci Code, which had its hero scouring works of art for secret, religious messages, the document is in code. According to Jacobovici and Wilson, it tells of Jesus's marriage through the story of the Old Testament character Joseph and his wife Aseneth.Scroll down for videoJacobovici decided to look more deeply into Joseph and Aseneth, when he compared their story with other Old Testament tales.In order to test the British Library documents, the researchers used hi tech digital imaging to photograph them 13 times. They then got the manuscript translated for the first time from Syriac into English.There have been other, later, versions of the Joseph and Aseneth story, written in Latin and Greek, which have been preserved in monasteries. But by returning to the ancient Syriac, Wilson and Jacobovici say it was possible to read the text as it was intended and to decode the hidden story.Central to their claim is that Joseph was actually Jesus and that Aseneth was actually Mary Van Cleef & Arpels necklace imitation Magdalene.The new translation, according to Jacobovici and Wilson, records that the Pharaoh of Egypt officiated at the wedding between the couple, saying to Aseneth: 'Blessed are you by the Lord God of Joseph, because he is the first born of God, and you will be called the Daughter of God Most High and the bride of Joseph now and for ever.'Gospel truth? The manuscriptdating back to 570 AD (above) is written in Syriac a Middle Eastern literary language used between the 4th and 8th centuries and related to Aramaic, the language spoken by JesusAfter a seven day wedding feast, the text is said to read: 'Joseph had intercourse with Aseneth . . . And Aseneth conceived from Joseph and gave birth to Manasseh and his brother Ephraim in Joseph's house.'And so, could centuries of Christian teaching be wrong and that Jesus was a husband and father?There are many, many fake van cleef and arpel necklace more pieces of the jigsaw to be put together before this can be proved conclusively.The theory is based on the claims that this 'lost' gospel and the 'encrypted' story of Jesus's marriage was the work of a group of persecuted Christians. It apparently disappeared from public view around 325 AD.It was at the time that the then Roman emperor Constantine the first Christian emperor was said to have ordered all other gospels to be destroyed, leaving only Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to tell Jesus's story because their version fitted with Constantine's view of Christianity.Mary Magdalene played a prominent role in the two most important moments of Jesus' life, portrayed in Pieta by Sir Anthony van Dyck'Since then, people have found bits and pieces of those other [destroyed] gospels,' says Jacobovici. 'They usually come up through the antiquities market and they're attacked as forgeries. Or they're just a few lines.'
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