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The Green Collection 1 Samuel Papyrus and Mummy Cartonnage
In the course of rooting around online for further insight into the early Christian papyrus fragments I have been discussing (here and here), I’ve followed in the tracks of others (like Brice Jones and Roberta Mazza) who were already going … Continue reading
P129, P130, and P131: A Couple More Observations
In my previous post, I tried to direct attention to the source of certain papyri in the Green Collection and/or the Museum of the Bible that seem to have been acquired at about the same time as “first century” Mark … Continue reading
“First Century” Mark and “Second Century” Romans and “Second Century” Hebrews and “Second Century” 1 Corinthians
[[Update 18 October 2019: It has now been shown that the papyri containing Romans and 1 Corinthians mentioned in this post were in fact stolen from the Oxyrhynchus collection. See details here.]] Elijah Hixson has posted a nice update on … Continue reading
Still more on P.Oxy. 83.5345
In an earlier posting, I noted that the updated statement from the Egypt Exploration Society still left some lingering questions about the treatment of this papyrus fragment and that some of these questions could best be answered by Dan Wallace … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities Market, Oxyrhynchus Papyri
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Refining Radiocarbon Calibration for the Southern Levant
At the website for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a new article has been posted in pre-print format: “Fluctuating radiocarbon offsets observed in the southern Levant and implications for archaeological chronology debates.” While the title isn’t exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Dendrochronology, Radiocarbon analysis
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Some Observations on the Updated EES Statement on P.Oxy. 83.5345
Thanks to Stephen Goranson for noting that the Egypt Exploration Society has posted an updated statement regarding some of the questions surrounding P.Oxy. 83.5345. There is a good deal of helpful and interesting information in this update. For now, I’ll … Continue reading
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri in the 1930s
From 1898 to 1927, Grenfell and/or Hunt edited the first seventeen volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri series (Grenfell’s periodic illnesses limited his participation in a couple volumes, and Hunt was away from Oxford during World War I). But over a … Continue reading
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A Bit More on the Storage and Inventory of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
As Grenfell and Hunt’s team extracted papyri from the garbage heaps in Oxyrhynchus, they placed them in baskets, which Grenfell and Hunt eventually packed away in tin boxes. As Grenfell famously wrote in his report of the first season’s excavation … Continue reading
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Some Observations on the “Provisional Dating” of P.Oxy. 83.5345
I want to dwell a little bit on one of the lines from the Egypt Exploration Society’s statement on P.Oxy. 83.5345: “This is the same text that Professor Obbink showed to some visitors to Oxford in 2011/12, which some of … Continue reading
Posted in Codices, Dirk Obbink, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Palaeography
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri of Dubious Provenance and Editorial Choice
P.Oxy. 83.5345, the newly published papyrus fragment of the Gospel According to Mark, has the inventory number 104/14b, which is part of a clear sequence of such numbers among the Oxyrhynchus papyri; so there is no good reason to doubt … Continue reading
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Variant Readings 