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1,600-year-old papyrus fragment contains earliest account of Jesus’ childhood
A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in ... enormous popularity but was not canonized into the New Testament. The fragment, measuring about 11 by 5 centimeters (4.3 by 2 inches ...
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Inside the cloak-and-dagger search for sacred texts
Copied in Egypt and dated as early as the second century A.D., this papyrus fragment is among the oldest known surviving texts from the New Testament. Just a few lines in Greek from chapter 18 of ...
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Recovering the Material World of the Early Christians
Paleographers have dated this fragment to the first half of ... contained not just most of the Old Testament but also all of the New Testament, plus two additional early Christian writings.
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...
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Great Surviving Manuscripts
In 1844, the German scholar Constantine Tischendorf visited the monastery, where he discovered more than 300 parchment leaves of the Old Testament and New Testament in Greek dating back to the 4th ...
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Paradiso, The Final Cantos
St. Bernard explains to Dante how heaven is ordered, pointing out famous personages from Old and New Testament history ... that binds together the scattered fragments of creation, and makes ...
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Biblical studies
The Septuagint, in addition to the manuscript fragments found at Qumran, is indeed the key to defining the Old Testament’s textual history. New Testament studies include the study of the New Testament ...
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John T. Townsend, "The Gospel of John and the Jews: The Story of a Religious Divorce"
It is not surprising that Rosemary Ruether has found the fullest development of New Testament anti-Jewish bias within the ... and the other from an earlier edition or source. Jesus and his earliest ...
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In the Footsteps of the Apostles
In the town of Parur, India, in the southern state of Kerala, the polished stone floor of the old church of Kottakkavu ... of their work in writing the New Testament Gospels.
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PhD Religions and Theology
We have world-class research resources including The John Rylands Library - home to a substantial collection of manuscripts and papyri, including the oldest manuscript fragment of a New Testament book ...
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111 West 57th Street: Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Skinniest Skyscraper
“The completion of 111 West 57th Street is a testament to the design and ingenuity ... “I have my romantic memory of old New York,” Sofield tells AD. The stepped form of 111 West 57th ...