A ‘new’ Bible fragment shocks the Christian story

Rather, a discovery is usually the beginning of a long saga full of intrigue and weirdness. That the biblical evidence survives to emerge into public seems really a miracle. That was the case with ‘P.Oxy. 87.5575’. It sat in a box at Oxford University for a century, to be looked at eventually by an American scholar named Dirk Obbink. He was widely proclaimed a genius at resurrecting old texts. But he’d decided that instead of studying manuscripts he would prefer to sell them. A new museum was being built in Washington D.C. by the Evangelicals who owned the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, and for the ‘Museum of the Bible’ they wanted to buy artifacts that told the Christian story. <a href="https://medium.com/belover/a-new-bible-fragment-shocks-the-christian-story-76b2e155688">Learn More</a>