The Oxyrhynchus Project: Desktop Papyrology
el-Bahnasa is a sand-blasted village about 100 miles south of Cairo. Once known as Oxyrhynchus (“City of the Sharp-Nose Fish”), it prospered under the Greeks, and became largely Christian under the...
View ArticleA New Poem By Sappho Discovered UPDATED
This is pretty big news: there’s a major discovery of previously unknown poems by the great Greek poet Sappho. Few lines of her work have survived (some of them in our old friend the Oxyrhynchus dump),...
View Article“Jesus’s Wife” Hoax: The Plot Thickens
Kudos to LiveScience for doing an actual investigation into the provenance claims of the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.” The results are fascinating. Karen King initially put the document forward...
View ArticleAnother Nail in the Coffin of the “Jesus’s Wife” Hoax
Evidence indicating that Karen King’s so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” (GJW) is a modern forgery just keeps piling up. Most recently, we learned that the man listed as the source for the document...
View Article“Jesus’s Wife” Scholar Admits: Where There Are Flames, There May Be Fire
Partially conceding the bloody obvious, Harvard professor Karen L. King said the following to the New York Times: This is substantive, it’s worth taking seriously, and it may point in the direction of...
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