Papyri
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Interesting item: In January, nine papyri documents almost 2,000 years old were discovered by a student in the Luther College library archives, where they had remained hidden in a cardboard box for decades. Luther sophomore Brittany Anderson was conducting a routine inventory of the papers of the late Orlando W. Qualley, longtime professor of classics…
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Wow … it’s hard to believe that the Ancient Lives Project has been around for almost two years now (see our initial coverage: Help Transcribe the Oxyrhynchus Papyri) … according to this interesting video from the Guardian, as of last October they’ve had well over a million transcriptions done in this crowd-sourcing project … check…
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Long-time blogger Ben Witherington has been running an interesting little series summarizing William Johnson’s Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus which folks might want to spend some time with: The Fascinating World of Ancient Papyri— Part One (on some assumption made by scholars) The Fascinating World of Ancient Papyri— Part Two (on the numbers of and…
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So last night my spiders drag bag something from Fox News, which originally came from LiveScience. Given all the Gospel of Jesus hype of late, I was immediately skeptical as it was making claims about a translation of a papyrus and, well, had been picked up by Fox, which doesn’t exactly have a great track…
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LiveScience’s Owen Jarus has put a good one out there … from the latest volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it’s a recently-translated poem all about Nero and Poppaea Sabina, and the latter’s ‘deification’ … here are some excerpts from Jarus’ piece: A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of…
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