Oxyrhynchus Papri
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First known in 1897 when BP Grenfell and AS Hunt published a fragment from
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, dating from the middle of the second century and containing
some sayings of Jesus
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Six more sayings found in 1903 and published in 1904
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Offer parallesls to all four Gospels
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Copied from a manuscript written as early as 110-130 AD
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2207 Papyri from Oxyrhynchus, mostly nonBiblical, have been published in
23 volumes
Derived from Gospel Parallels, Ed. Burton H. Throckmorton,
Jr., 1979, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville
LivingWeb Library: Scriptures: 229.9513
- Early Papers
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