The Jesus Papyrus: The Most Sensational Evidence on the Origins of the Gospels Since the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Most Sensational Evidence on the Origin of the Gospel since the Discover of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2014
Summary
In 1901, the Reverend Charles B. Huleatt acquired three pieces of a New Testament manuscript on the murky antiquities market of Luxor, Egypt. He donated these papyrus fragments to his alma mater, Magdalen College in Oxford, England, where they sat in a display case and drew very little attention. Nearly a century later, the fragments – part of the Gospel of Matthew and thought to date from A.D. 180-200 – were reevaluated by scholar Carsten Peter Thiede. His research showed the bits of papyrus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385488983 |
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| ISBN-10: | 038548898X |
| Author: | Carsten Peter Thiede |
| Publisher: | Galilee Book |
| Imprint: | Galilee Trade |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 144mm x 215mm |
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About The Author
Carsten Peter Thiede
CARSTEN PETER THIEDE directs the Institute for Basic Epistemological Research in his hometown of Paderborn, Germany. A former German National Scholarship Foundation Research Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford, he is an authority on ancient manuscripts. MATTHEW d’ANCONA lives in London, where his lead articles and special features for The Times are widely read. Winner of the 1994 Charles Douglas-Horne Award and the 1987 Oxford University H. W. C. David Prize in Modern History, he is also a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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