[null and void]

Oxyrhynchus? Sharp nose?

[TaraP]

Ping!

[Pearls Before Swine]

One modern candidate for “the Mark:” RFID.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I can just hear the translation of the "Lost Gospel" by a group of homosexuals.

It is interesting how people are always bringing up "New Gospels, " thus implying the canon is less than correct.

[WKUHilltopper]

<<<... call Tuesday for “armchair archaeologists” to log onto the Ancient Lives website where numerous parts of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri have been published and to take a stab at deciphering the texts, which are written in Greek.>>> BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE?! A CRUMMY COMMERCIAL?!

[D_Idaho]

The “wildly-popular “666”?!?!?!? Popular with whom?

[Red Badger]

D R I N K. Y O U R. O V A L T I N E. .........

[HereInTheHeartland]

“whether the number of the beast referred to in Revelation 13:18 is actually “616” or “665” as opposed to the wildly-popular “666”. “

Wow. The guy who bought the house at 616 Maple Street is really going to be mad.

[SengirV]

616? Uh oh, don’t tell any Marvel Comics fans.

[Thane_Banquo]

Researchers have also found a “lost gospel” that includes an account of Jesus casting out demons.

Yeah 'cause, you know, there are no accounts in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John about Jesus casting out demons.

/sarcasm

[ApplegateRanch]

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[AnalogReigns]

"Sharp nosed?" Yep, the "Oxyrhynchus Papyri" were named after the place name they were found, from Wiki:"The town was named after a species of fish of the Nile River which was important in Egyptian mythology as the fish that ate the penis of Osiris, though it is not known exactly which species of fish this is."

TMI! (too much information) I know.

I'm currently reading an excellent book on the recognition of the Gospels, by Dr. C. E. Hill, (Who Chose the Gospels?) and contrary to the unsupported opinion of most liberal (and mostly non-Christian) bible scholars today (folks like Bart Ehrman) there is ample evidence that by Irenaus' day (ca. AD 125-202) the 4 Gospels we all know, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--of Apostolic origin--were well established as canonical (BIBLE) among orthodox (and persecuted) Christians.

It seems to be a post-modernist fantasy that nobody had any idea what writings about Jesus to trust until Constantine...probably due to Dan Brown's DaVinci Code, which all scholars regard as rubbish.

To believe that writings written 100 and more years AFTER Jesus' death and resurrection (contra the 4 Gospels, of 1st Century origin...), by cultic groups (equivelant to JW's or Mormon's today) opposed to Christianity... were given equal credibility among Christians (routinely thrown to lions in this era--for believing those Gospels) really is pure speculation and wishful thinking.

Egypt was a center of cultic/heretical activity in the early centuries AD. The fashionable cult which violently opposed orthodox Christians then was Gnosticism, and the "Oxyrhynchus Papyri" are simply fragments of Gnostic writings found in an ancient garbage dump.

The only reason scholars get so excited about them is their age....and the only reason paper so old survived is Egypt's desert climate. Still, garbage is still garbage, no matter how old.

We will no more find out credible history about Jesus from these writings, than we find credible history of pre-Columbian America in the writings of Joseph Smith.

[Chode]

iirc the number six in Hebrew is also the W sound... 666=WWW???

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, here come the satanic verses.

[mnehring]

If it was written between 500 and 1000, what qualifies it as a lost ‘gospel’ versus any other book? Hundreds of books were written with stories of Jesus’ life that aren’t gospels.