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OXYRHYNCHUS FRAGMENTS

Oxyrhynchus, an ancient Egyptian site (modern Behnesa), lies at the edge of the desert ca. 193 km. (120 mi.) S of Cairo and 16 km. (10 mi.) W of the Nile. Excavations at the end of the 19th century uncovered, in its rubbish heaps, a treasure chest of ancient texts of all sorts, dating from the 1st to the 9th century b.c. By 1995 more than 60 volumes of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series were published, presenting the Greek text of several thousand separate documents. Among the official documents, correspondence, personal letters, informal notes, and other texts were fragments of Matt. 1 (now at the University of Pennsylvania), parts of Rom. 1 and 1 John 4 (at the Semitic Museum, Harvard University), parts of 1 Corinthians and Philippians (now in Cairo), and a leaf from Revelation (at Princeton Theological Seminary). Also found at Oxyrhynchus were fragments of a papyrus codex preserving several sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas.

Carroll D. Osburn

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OXYRHYNCHUS FRAGMENTS

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)