120 Years On The Work
The experts had tried to put some light on the collection of writings known to be as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri for more than 120 years now. And even though 5,000 of these documents had been analyzed, it was reported that this number only comprised around 2 percent of the total collection that had to be translated and sorted through. What made things even more challenging was the fact that most of the texts were too small and usually just an inch or two.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Discovered At The University Of Oxford’s Sackler Library
There was a breakthrough in 2015 when the scraps that featured the First Apocalypse of James in the Greek language were found at the University of Oxford’s Sackler Library. And it was up to the biblical scholars Obbink and Smith, the ones who were also rifling through the collection of writings known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
Discovered At The University Of Oxford’s Sackler Library
