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A New Article on the (ex-)Green Collection Sappho Papyri
Thanks to Mike Holmes for notifying me that the latest issue of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik contains an article by Museum of the Bible curator Brian Hyland that reports what is now known about the purchase of the Green … Continue reading
The Retraction of Dirk Obbink’s Sappho Chapter and the Question of Authenticity
Last week, the news broke that Brill had retracted a chapter by Prof. Dirk Obbink that presented false information about the provenance of the Sappho papyri. A statement from the volume’s editors explains the reasoning for the retraction. Just as … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on the Tchacos-Ferrini Exodus
A couple years ago, I wrote a short web article on the dispersal of a papyrus codex of Exodus that was allegedly found with three other papyrus codices: one containing a mathematical text in Greek, one containing the letters of … Continue reading
A Dead Sea Scrolls Photo Shoot from the 1950s
Among the PAM negatives of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there is a short sequence of photos that puzzled me when I encountered them last year. The photos occur in a sequence taken in June 1956, PAM 42.139-141. They are described … Continue reading
Posted in Dead Sea Scrolls, Khalil Eskander Shahin (Kando)
Tagged archaeology, Dead Sea Scrolls, qumran, Qumran Cave 1Q
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Online Images of Early Christian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
In a previous post, I mentioned that the Bodleian Library had made available nice color digital images of the Hawara Homer papyrus roll. They have also added images of several early Christian manuscripts. I provide links to the images at … Continue reading
Posted in Bodleian Library, Codices, Oxyrhynchus Papyri
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Color Images of the Hawara Homer Online
Thanks to Gregg Schwendner for the alert: In 2019, the Bodleian Library at Oxford posted very nice color digital images (with a scale!) of MS. Gr. class. a. 1 (better known as the Hawara Homer), a copy of books 1 … Continue reading
A New Item in the P.Sapph.Obbink Timeline
Following up on yesterday’s news about the recovery of more papyri stolen from the Egypt Exploration Society, I learn from an anonymous commenter on an earlier post that there is a neglected (by me, at at least) item on the … Continue reading
More Stolen Papyri to be Returned to the Egypt Exploration Society
Earlier today, the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) announced the discovery that more papyri “had been removed from the EES collection without authorisation.” This follows other related announcements over the last several months. The first announcement by the EES (25 June … Continue reading
Museum of the Bible Papyri in Egypt
From Egypt Today: “CAIRO – 27 January 2021: A large group of Egyptian artifacts that were in the possession of the Holy Bible Museum in Washington, USA, arrived at Cairo International Airport on January 27, as a result of the … Continue reading
New Facsimiles of the Chester Beatty New Testament Papyri
I had heard rumors a few years ago that a new facsimile edition of the Beatty Biblical Papyri was in the works. It looks like the New Testament papyri have now appeared courtesy of Hendrickson. This is exciting. The volumes … Continue reading
Posted in Chester Beatty Papyri, Codices
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