Ariel Sabar, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is the author of Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife

Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the ... A Biblical Mystery at Oxford A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

Marc Burckhardt The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.