You think King knew it was fake from the start?
I'd like readers to consider the evidence in “Veritas” and decide for themselves.
She didn't present photographs when she first announced the papyrus to her colleagues. That immediately raised alarms, that she didn't give her own colleagues the evidence needed to evaluate the papyrus. And she didn't release images of the other key piece in Fritz's collection, a fragment supposedly from the Gospel of John, which top scholars of Coptic had marked as a forgery within hours of seeing it.
Why withhold evidence from colleagues if you believe it's authentic? Did she know it was fake and thought the ends justify the means? Was she willing to use a fake sensation to whet the public's appetite for this other interesting object (the Gnostic gospels)? To use a forgery to point to the truth?
^ Covers the evidence and timeline that this was lying
Reminder that these are the people teaching religion at universities. Hacks and antichrists, the lot of them.
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