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Karen Leigh King was born on 16 February, 1954, is an American historian. Discover Karen Leigh King's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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King's research focuses on previously unknown Christian texts discovered in Egypt in the modern period, especially those of the "Nag Hammadi library" found in Nag Hammadi in 1945.
This research has uncovered historically marginalized or lost perspectives in Christian thought that Reveal some of the extant diversity and dynamics of early belief and practice from the first centuries of Christianity.
She has in particular explored the roles of women, images of the feminine divine principle, Jesus's sexuality and gender, diversity of attitudes toward persecution and violence and notions of what it means to be human, among other topics.
Karen Leigh King (born 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).
Karen L. King attended Voss Gymnasium in Voss, Norway, through the International Christian Youth Exchange Program (1971–72).
She graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Montana in 1976, and completed her Ph.D. at Brown University in 1984.
In 1982-83 she studied in Berlin with a fellowship from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, working officially at the Free University in West Berlin while meeting regularly with Hans-Martin Schenke, Professor at the Humboldt University in East Berlin.
From 1984 until 1997, she taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles.
She is the editor of Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (1988) and Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today (2000), and co-editor of For the Children, Perfect Instruction: Studies in Honor of Hans-Martin Schenke on the Occasion of the Berliner Arbeitskreis für Koptisch-gnostische Schriften’s Thirtieth Year.
In 1997, she was appointed Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School.
King also co-authored Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity with Elaine Pagels (2007).
King found herself at the center of an international controversy after a papyrus which she had introduced at a scholarly conference in Rome in 2012, and thereafter became known as the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" – because it appeared to make reference to Jesus as having a wife – was found to have a false provenance.
In 2016, despite acknowledging likely forgery, King stated that there was no reason to retract her earlier published research on the forged document.
In 2020, journalist Ariel Sabar published "Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife".
A Wall Street Journal review of Veritas reported that King had "embarked on a phased retirement".
In addition to numerous articles, King's books include: