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Karen Leigh King (born February 16, 1954, raised in Sheridan, Montana) is a historian of religion working in the field of Early Christianity, who is currently the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, in the oldest endowed chair in the United States (since 1721) She was the first woman to be appointed to the position.
In 2012, Harvard scholar Karen King announced a Coptic papyrus fragment that allegedly mentioned Jesus' wife. The fragment sparked a firestorm of criticism and debate among scholars and theologians.
Karen L. King is the Hollis Professor of Divinity and a scholar of Christianity and Gnosticism. She has written books on the Secret Revelation of John, the Gospel of Mary of Magdala, and the history of orthodoxy and heresy.
Sep 13, 2020 · In 2012 scholar Karen King announced the academic discovery of a lifetime: a scrap of papyrus, purportedly from the early days of Christianity, in which Jesus refers to a woman as “my wife.”
In Los Angeles, she once visited a Greek Orthodox church that displayed a timeline of Christian history in which the main trunk, from the origins of Jesus, led directly to the Orthodox Church, with Catholicism and Protestantism as side branches.
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Karen L. King is a renowned historian of early Christianity and the first woman to hold the Hollis Chair at Harvard University. She is known for her research on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, a fragmentary papyrus that suggests Jesus had a wife.
