After Professor King's announcement of the existence of the papyrus fragment at the International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome on 18 September 2012,[REF][REF] scholarly publication of the text with commentary was slated for the Harvard Theological Review in January 2013 [REF].
In response to Ariel Sabar's article in The Atlantic, the Harvard Theological Review issued a statement saying that it had never committed itself to the authenticity of the papyrus and refused to print a retraction of King's article [REF].