British Museum

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The Egerton Fragments

Four scraps of papyrus, the smallest no larger than a thumbnail, are the remains of a codex that, for a few years in the middle of the twentieth century, was claimed to…

Scholars

Christian David Ginsburg

On a December day in 1897, in a reading room on Queen Victoria Street in London, a Christian scholar in his late sixties was checking the last proofs of the third volume…