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Monthly Archives: July 2018
God’s Library
So, it has been about a year since I started this blog. At that time, I was in the midst of finishing my last revisions to the manuscript of my book, and in my first posting, I described the blog … Continue reading
Posted in Codices, Nag Hammadi
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E. C. Colwell on P52
Back in 2005, I wrote an article on P.Ryl. 3.457, or “P52,” the small papyrus fragment of chapter 18 of the Gospel According to John kept at the Rylands Library in Manchester. I argued that the date generally assigned to … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities Market, Codices, Palaeography, Rylands Papyri
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“Ink & Blood” Back? (but with less ink?)
I’ve recently been doing some research on a few early Christian books that were on the antiquities market about a decade ago. There are a lot of interesting stories here. We’re all pretty familiar with the collection now known as … Continue reading
The Moschos Ioudaios Inscription
One of the most interesting early Greek inscriptions involving a Jew/Judaean is the so-called “Moschos inscription” (or “Moschus inscription”), a record of a manumission found in 1952 during excavations at Oropos north of Athens. The inscription was recovered from the … Continue reading
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A Model of Nag Hammadi Codex III (and Some Thoughts on Large Single-quire Codices)
After I started out by making a model of Nag Hammadi Codex VI, the second Nag Hammadi book that I tried to make was Codex III. Like Codex VI, Codex III is made up of a single papyrus quire, but … Continue reading
Posted in Book binding, Book covers, Codices, Nag Hammadi
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The Odyssey at Olympia?
An interesting news report is circulating about the discovery at Olympia of an incised clay tablet containing lines from Homer’s Odyssey. The ultimate source of the story seems to be a press release from the Greek Ministry of Culture and … Continue reading
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A Model of Nag Hammadi Codex VI
As I was writing my book on early Christian manuscripts, one of the most helpful things I did was take up the construction of models of ancient codices. Going through the process of assembling a codex really forced me to … Continue reading
Posted in Book binding, Book covers, Codices, Nag Hammadi
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