Here’s a valuable introduction to how scholars date ancient papyri—and our oldest copies of the biblical texts are papyri—by Larry Hurtado from his excellent blog. Well worth reading if this is an area of mystery to you—and well worth recommending to students as a helpful ‘way in’ to the topic.
Recent Posts
- Slides from a sermon on John 12:20-36 27 March 2023
- Sermon on John 1:1-18 14 March 2023
- Slides on Introducing the Theology of Paul 11 March 2023
- Isaiah 7:10-17: slides and video from a sermon 19 December 2022
- Reflecting on SBL Denver 2022 9 December 2022
Tags
1 Corinthians
Acts
Bible
Biblical Studies
Caritas
Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible
Chris Keith
Christian growth
church
cities
conference
Corinth
education
Galatians
Gospels
greek
Jesus
Judaism
learning
Luke
Luke-Acts
Mark
Matthew
mission
news
New Testament
New Testament Studies
Paul
Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Pauline communities
PhD research
poverty
preaching
publishing
research
Roman empire
SBL
scholarship
Scripture
sermon
St Mary’s University
teaching
Tearfund
Tom Wright
writing