It is a bit arduous to comprehend why HN is so eager to distribute such news which are a bit irritating for believer members like me. It is sad that it is always one sided.
If you actually read the article, instead of assuming you know what's in it, you'll probably find you agree with its conclusions. When you're afraid to read things you think will assault your beliefs, you miss out on a lot of truth.
I have no idea why it's here except for an interesting topic with research involved.
As to it being irritating to believers, I don't understand why. Jesus was a rabbi. In this story he married a believer. Rabbis traditionally married devout women. But what do I know? I'm just a believer that is also a de-aproned freemasons currently researching the rosicrucians.
> "As to it being irritating to believers, I don't understand why."
Two key ideas:
1) Jesus is "married to" the church, as a whole, in traditional Christian doctrine. Being married to a woman would slightly complicate that theory.
2) Theories about Jesus marrying some particular woman are usually not only about that, but come with other baggage attached -- like accusations of suppression of knowledge, or suggested massive rewrites of Christian ideas. And they're typically based on a lot of speculation tied to things written centuries after the fact, not based on careful historical study.
