5 mysterious lengthy reads – The Atlantic

A Columbia historian stated he’d found proof of a misplaced sacred textual content with scandalous implications in regards to the lifetime of Jesus. Was it a faux? In a brand new Atlantic function, the author Ariel Sabar stories on the bitter ongoing debate—and the largely unexamined early lifetime of the person who discovered it.

The story is the newest of Sabar’s quite a few explorations of the mysterious, the illusive, and the laborious to imagine. He’s written about the billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. Treasury, probed a biblical thriller at Oxford, and launched readers to the tomb raiders of the Higher East Facet.

As we speak’s e-newsletter is a set of lengthy reads from Sabar and others in regards to the enigmas in our midst and in locations you’ll have by no means thought to look. Some are wondrous; others are chilling. I like to recommend settling in with a cup of espresso and getting misplaced.

The Mysteries Round Us

The ‘Secret’ Gospel and a Scandalous New Episode within the Lifetime of Jesus

By Ariel Sabar

A Columbia historian stated he’d found a sacred textual content with clues to Jesus’s sexuality. Was it actual?

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The Tree With Matchmaking Powers

By Jeff Maysh

For practically a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely folks discover love—together with the mailman who delivers its letters.

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What Actually Occurred to Malaysia’s Lacking Airplane

By William Langewiesche

Ten years in the past, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean, and we nonetheless don’t know why. The reason might lie not within the sea however on land—in Malaysia, the place officers know greater than they dare to say. (From 2019)

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