Category Archives: Dirk Obbink

So-called “First Century Mark.” Wow. (with a coda on Oxyrhynchus inventory numbers)

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

Quite a bit has gone down since Elijah Hixson broke the news yesterday that a newly published Oxyrhynchus papyrus (P.Oxy. 83.5345) is the much awaited “first century Mark” fragment that has been rumored to exist since 2012.

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Further Details on the Robinson Papyri

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Brent Nongbri

[Update 22 November 2023: The data here is now superseded by the information gathered in Daniel B. Sharp, “The Provenance of the Robinson and Mississippi Papyri,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 69 (2023) 162-192.] Once I got to organizing my thoughts about … Continue reading →

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