quick to add/say~
ハーバード大学神学校のカレン・キング教授が１８日、イタリア・ローマで開かれた学会でキリストの妻についての発言を記載した古いパピルス片が見つかったと発表しました。
パピルス片には「私の妻が…」という一節があり、２世紀半ばごろに書かれたとみられます。 ただしパピルス片は、キリスト既婚説の証拠にはならないと教授は強調しています。「マグダラのマリア」が妻だったとする俗説は、例のThe Da Vinci Codeのストーリーのモチーフとなり、それが大騒ぎになった経緯があります。
非常にデリケートな話題なので、quick to add/sayというフレーズが２度も用いられています。こうしたquickは「取り急ぎ〜まで、まずはご報告まで」のような形で使われることが多いようです（例：(This is) just a quick note to~）。時期が時期だけに細心の注意が必要です。（UG）
Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
(CNN) - A newly revealed, centuries-old papyrus fragment suggests that some early Christians might have believed Jesus was married. The fragment, written in Coptic, a language used by Egyptian Christians, says in part, "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ..."
Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2- by 3-inch honey-colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association for Coptic Studies.
King has been quick to add this discovered text "does not, however, provide evidence that the historical Jesus was married," she wrote in a draft of her analysis of the fragment set to appear in the January edition of Harvard Theological Review. The divinity school has posted a draft of King's article to which AnneMarie Luijendijk, an associate professor of religion at Princeton University, contributed.
"This fragment, this new piece of papyrus evidence, does not prove that (Jesus) was married, nor does it prove that he was not married. The earliest reliable historical tradition is completely silent on that. So we're in the same position we were before it was found. We don't know if he was married or not," King said in a conference call with reporters.
"What I'm really quick to say is to cut off people who would say this is proof that Jesus was married because historically speaking, it's much too late to constitute historical evidence," she continued. "I'm not saying he was, I'm not saying he wasn't. I'm saying this doesn't help us with that question," she continued.
