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John Fragment or Papyrus 52 is a piece from a Papyrus Codex and is the Oldest Fragment from the New Testament Known to Survive. It measures only 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 by 6 cm) at its widest Point and contains parts from the Gospel of John in Greek, on both sides. It was among a group of Papyri acquired on the Egyptian market at. Fragments of a Faith Forgotten G. Available in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook. This book has 473 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1900. A fascinating read from G. Mead, this book is one of the best about Gnosticism. Even though this was written before the Nag Hammadi discoveries, it explains. The Fragments of Papias The Acts of Peter and the Twelve The Epistle of Apollos The Prophet The Life of Jesus Christ Essene Book of Revelation Essene Book of Moses Essene Vision of Enoch Mark 10 including the Secret Mark Verses The Letter of Prester John The Complete Book of Daniel. FRAGMENTS OF PAPIAS. FROM THE EXPOSITION OF THE ORACLES OF THE LORD. THE writings of Papias in common circulation are five in number, and these are called an Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord. Irenaeus makes mention of these as the only works written by him, in the following words: “Now testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a hearer of John,. Psalm 147:17 - He casts down his ice crystals like bread fragments. Who can endure his freezing cold?
This small fragment of St. John's Gospel, less than nine centimetres high and containing on the one side part of verses 31-33, on the other of verses 37-38 of chapter xviii is one of the collection of Greek papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. It was originally discovered in Egypt, and may come from the famous site of Oxyrhynchus (Behnesa), the ruined city in Upper Egypt where Grenfell and Hunt carried out some of the most startling and successful excavations in the history of archaeology; it may be remembered that among their finds of new fragments of Classical and Christian literature were the now familiar 'Sayings of Jesus'. The importance of this fragment is quite out of proportion to its size, since it may with some confidence be dated in the first half of the second century A.D., and thus ranks as the earliest known fragment of the New Testament in any language.It provides us with invaluable evidence of the spread of Christianity in areas distant from the land of its origin; it is particularly interesting to know that among the books read by the early Christians in Upper Egypt was St. John's Gospel, commonly regarded as one of the latest of the books of the New Testament. Like other early Christian works which have been found in Egypt, this Gospel was written in the form of a codex, i.e. book, not of a roll, the common vehicle for pagan literature of that time. A larger view of the fragment: recto and verso. © John Rylands University Library of Manchester. |
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