I got to see Jesus genealogy in a 3rd century manuscript
This is P1, a 3rd century copy of the Gospel of Matthew, which includes Jesus’ genealogy and the story of his miraculous birth. I got the unique opportunity to both see P1 as well as where it was discovered in Egypt.
P.Oxy. 5575 - a new published papyri
P. Oxy. 5575, is one of the latest editions to the Egyptian Exploration Society’s published volume (now on number LXXXVII). This 9x3cm papyrus fragment has been attracting a lot of attention lately…
The time I visited the discovery sites of "lost" sospels
In June 2023, my colleague and I headed over to Egypt. While there we visited key sites where biblical and apocryphal manuscripts were discovered, along with getting to see a few particularly noteworthy manuscripts up close and personal…
The most famous Bible verse not original to the Bible
If you look at your modern translation of the Bible you’ll notice that at the end of John 7 the text is often sectioned out or bracketed off with the citation note that reads something to the effect of: “The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11.” Part of the trickiness of the conversation regarding this text, which records the story of the woman caught in adultery, is that it is not found in any of the earliest Greek texts in the manuscript tradition.
Where do the chapters and vesres in your Bible come from?
Our earliest copies of both the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament did not come with chapter and verse divisions. So where did they come from?
