Found in the Rubbish
'Just Stories?' #25
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The Oxyrhynchus papyri are a collection of ancient documents, including parts of the Bible dating from around 250 AD. These documents were not commissioned by an emperor or bishop - they come from ordinary church communities making their own copies of the Scriptures. Two scholars from Oxford, B P Grenfell and A S Hunt, discovered them on a rubbish tip in Egypt, and the fragment of the book of Hebrews is now in the British Library, in London.
With James Greig, Zenas Heritage Tours.
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