There is a useful article here at Tyndale House by Simon Gathercole on this curious discovery of a 4th century fragment of papyrus with a Coptic apocryphal text on it.
I hope that the media attention may raise the profile of papyrology, and Coptic studies, and perhaps draw people into an interest in either of these disciplines. Neither is particularly over-funded or over-well-known. It’s a long time since Grenfell and Hunt had public money to go and look for papyri in Egypt. Why shouldn’t there be a fund-raising drive to locate more such papyri today?
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