By Lincoln Blumell
With the invention of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri simply over a century in the past a few vital texts at once with regards to historical Christianity have come to gentle. whereas yes literary texts have obtained massive recognition in scholarship through comparability the documentary proof with regards to Christianity has acquired a long way much less realization and is still really vague. to assist redress this imbalance, and to lend a few context to the Christian literary fabrics, this ebook examines the extant Christian epistolary is still from Oxyrhynchus among the 3rd and 7th centuries CE. Drawing upon this designated corpus of proof, which till this aspect hasn't ever been jointly nor systematically taken care of, this ebook breaks new floor because it employs the letters to contemplate numerous questions in terms of Christianity within the Oxyrhynchite. not just does this lucid examine fill a void in scholarship, it additionally provides a few insights that experience better implications on Christianity in overdue antiquity.
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Bowman, et al. (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2007), 129–138; Fehérvári, “The Kuwaiti Excavations, 1985–7”; Bagnall and Rathbone, Egypt from Alexander to the Early Christians, 161. 22 During the course of Grenfell and Hunt’s excavations at Oxyrhynchus they constantly suspected that some of their local help was feeding the antiquities market by stealing papyri. G. Turner, “The Greco-Roman Branch of the Egypt Exploration Society,” in Oxyrhynchus: A City and Its Texts, ed. K. , reprint, 1983 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2007), 20.
E. Cowley, “Hebrew and Aramaic Papyri,” JQR 16, no. 1 (1903): 1–4. Among the Hebrew remains are fragments of two letters, a portion of Mishnah Yoma, a penitential prayer, some poems (Piyyutim), a ˙ and colophon, as well as some fragments too mutilated to be securely identified. The poems colophon appear to be from the first or second century while all other texts date to the fourth or fifth century. 30 Grenfell, “Oxyrhynchus and Its Papyri,” 11, notes the existence of rubbish mounds that produced exclusively Arabic papyri.
Sinuthii archimandritae vita et opera omnia (CSCO 41) (Paris, 1906), 22–23; M. , Foutouh Al Bahnasâ (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire XXII) (Caire, 1909), 14–22; Innocent of Maronea, Epist. de coll. cum Sev. 4–5 (= ACOec. 2, p. 170); Thedoret, Hist. eccl. 14. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. Oxy. LXIX 4706 Shepherd of Hermes (II/III). 41 Nevertheless, such early evidence suggests that Christians made their way to Oxyrhynchus fairly early and that a secondcentury date for a Christian community at Oxyrhynchus is not inconceivable.