Category Archives: Duke Papyri

More on Oxyrhynchus, the Robinson Papyri, and the Museum of the Bible

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

At Hyperallergic, Michael Press has written up a very interesting piece on some of the various projects that receive financial support from the Museum of the Bible as revealed through tax documents. The whole article is worth reading. Of specific … Continue reading →

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Just a Bit More on the Robinson Papyri

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Brent Nongbri

I find one of the items in the list of Robinson Papyri at Duke especially curious. The last item in the list, which is given in the Duke records as P.Duk.inv. 798 (= P.Rob.inv. L 1). It is a fragment … Continue reading →

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Further Details on the Robinson Papyri

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Brent Nongbri

Once I got to organizing my thoughts about the Robinson Papyri yesterday, it occurred to me that the best thing to do was simply to list them out. As I was working through the collection, I came across another description of … Continue reading →

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The Robinson Papyri

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Brent Nongbri

“The Robinson Papyri” are a group of manuscripts bought by David Moore Robinson (1880-1958), professor of classics and archaeology at the University of Mississippi. I first became interested in these papyri while trying to sort out the origins of the … Continue reading →

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