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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, modern el-Bahnasa
Oxyrhynchus 840 (P. Oxy. V 840), found in 1905, is a single small vellum parchment leaf with 45 lines of text written on both sides in a tiny neat hand that dates it to the 4th century, almost square, less than 10 cm across.
Grenfell and Hunt did not realize they had discovered part of the Gospel of Thomas, as at the time there was no reference text. [8] The only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas was found in 1945 when a Coptic version was discovered at Nag Hammadi with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts, [9] and it was only after that discovery that the text of Oxyrhynchus Papyri I was able to be ...
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 405 (P. Oxy. 405 or P. Oxy. III 405) is a fragment from a copy dating to c. 200 CE [1] of the early Christian work Against Heresies, [2] written by Irenaeus of Lyon around 180 CE.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575 (abbreviated as P. Oxy. 5575) is a second century papyrus fragment of multiple Gospels: Matthew, Luke, and Thomas.It is the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of Thomas and comes from the era of Early Christianity before the formation of the New Testament.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 159 through 207 are the 48 papyri published by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in summary form at the end of the first volume of their monumental collection of documents recovered from Oxyrhynchus beginning in 1896.
The Oxyrhynchus hymn (or P. Oxy. XV 1786) is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation.The papyrus on which the hymn was written dates from around the end of the 3rd century AD. [1]
The first and third leaves were published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II (1899), no. 208. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory classified it under number 5 on his list. [ 7 ] The second leaf (John 16:14-30) was published in 1922 as Oxyrhynchus no. 1781.