{"id":13013,"date":"2014-05-13T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13013"},"modified":"2014-05-13T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:43:08","slug":"worrying-questions-about-the-supposed-new-nt-papyri-from-mummy-cartonnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2014\/05\/13\/worrying-questions-about-the-supposed-new-nt-papyri-from-mummy-cartonnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying questions about the supposed new NT papyri from mummy cartonnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my last post, I noted that Peter Head pointed out that we have a forger active among us, who knows how to play to the predispositions of scholars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have just seen a very sound post by Roberta Mazza, discussing the supposed discovery of a bunch of interesting papyri from mummy cartonnage &#8211; papyrus reused to stuff the packing of mummies, and make up the coffins etc in the late period.\u00a0 No doubt cartonnage contains much of interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Dr Mazza is absolutely right in pointing out that we have NO previous examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/facesandvoices.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/13\/new-testament-papyri-from-mummy-cartonnage-accounts-dont-balance\/\">New Testament papyri from mummy cartonage<\/a>; and noting the rather confused reportage coming out of the Green collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are very sound questions.\u00a0\u00a0 Failure to see that the &#8220;Gospel of Jesus&#8217; Wife&#8221; was too good to be true is what undid Karen King and Harvard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A first century fragment of the New Testament?\u00a0 Exciting if true.\u00a0 But &#8230; too good to be true?\u00a0 Quite possibly.\u00a0 Particularly when we note that the recipient of the material is predisposed to believe that the material is genuine; just as the hapless Karen King was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the moment all we have is various bits of excited and not-too-knowledgeable comment from amateurs involved in helping in menial capacities.\u00a0 I think the Green collection are absolutely right to be open-access with their finds; indeed it is essential to bring all available talent to bear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have an enemy of learning active in the world at the moment, remember.\u00a0 Only a fool would neglect every precaution.\u00a0 Particularly when a find might be too good to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I noted that Peter Head pointed out that we have a forger active among us, who knows how to play to the predispositions of scholars. I have just seen a very sound post by Roberta Mazza, discussing the supposed discovery of a bunch of interesting papyri from mummy cartonnage &#8211; papyrus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[713,775,796,1271],"class_list":["post-13013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-forgery","tag-gospel-of-jesus-wi","tag-green-collection","tag-papyri"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}