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  Gospel of Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxyrhyncus 1: this is half a leaf of papyrus which contains fragments of logion 26 through 33.
Oxyrhyncus 654: this contains fragments of the beginning through logion 7, logion 24 and logion 36 on the flip side of a papyrus containing surveying data.
Oxyrhyncus 655: this contains fragments of logion 36 through logion 39 and is actually 8 fragments named a through h, whereof f and h have since been lost.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Gospel_of_Thomas   (5638 words)

  
 history.htm
The Gospel is the longest of the volumes in the find, and consists of 118 sayings of Jesus.
An additional discovery of some similar strips of papyrus from manuscripts and a shroud found in Upper Egypt, where once stood the Greek city of Oxyrhyncus, contain fragments of a text having very similar sayings to the Thomas Gospel.
They are so similar, in fact, that words and phrases can sometimes be used to fill in missing sections of the Thomas Gospel, and vice versa.
www.thethomasgospel.com /history.htm   (1069 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Oxyrhyncus
Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the underside of the head.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Oxyrhyncus" at HighBeam.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
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 Amphibian Species of the World - Eleutherodactylus oxyrhyncus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Amphibian Species of the World - Eleutherodactylus oxyrhyncus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus — Hedges, 1989, In Woods (ed.), Biogeograph.
Rednose Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl.
research.amnh.org /herpetology/amphibia/references.php?id=9969   (255 words)

  
 Ancient History Sourcebook: Certificate of Having Sacrificed to the Gods, 250 CE
Certificate of Having Sacrificed to the Gods, 250 CE [Davis Introduction]: About 250 A.D., during the Emperor Decius’ short but furious persecution, persons suspected of Christianity were evidently obliged to clear themselves by sacrificing to the old gods, then taking out a certificate to protect themselves against further legal proceedings.
This example comes from a papyrus found at Oxyrhyncus.
To the Commissioners of Sacrifice of the Village of Alexander’s Island:
www.fordham.edu /HALSALL/ancient/250sacrificecert.html   (284 words)

  
 Tony Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The plot from Joe Keheller at the Roehampton Institute:
The play is on one level a rewriting of Sophocles' Ichneutae fragment of a satyr play, and includes a staging of the finding of the fragment by twentieth century British scholar-detectives on the middens of Oxyrhyncus.
Great and rare literature is found on the rubbish tip along with the petitions of the poor people who have always been with us.
www.ripon.edu /Academics/Theatre/THE231/ClevelandJ/Greek/tony_harrison.htm   (471 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 Road to hell - The Byzantine Forum
How many books have been thrown on the trash heaps of Oxyrhyncus in order to preserve one's orthodoxy?
If memory serves, Oxyrhyncus is mentioned in the writings of the Desert Fathers as a place of monastic settlement (like Skete, the Thebaid, etc).
posted 06-28-2000 10:33 AM Oxyrhyncus was an ancient Egyptian town where heretical writings were found in its garbage dump.
www.byzcath.org /bboard/Forum2/HTML/000303.html   (1171 words)

  
 News from the Marble Museum
The Glass ones were all found in Egypt.
The exact findspot of the three larger ones is not known but the three smaller ones come from the site of Oxyrhyncus.
Their date is difficult to establish - most of the finds at Oxyrhyncus come from the Roman or Byzantine period.
www.marblemuseum.org /museumnews_2002.html   (679 words)

  
 An Introduction to the New Testament
Only in a few sayings which have survived from these gospels, from collections found in Egyptian rubbish-heaps, and from the main stream of Christian tradition, does the authentic ring of Jesus’; voice sometimes make itself felt.
Perhaps the best known of such sayings occurs in a third century papyrus found at Oxyrhyncus:
Wheresoever there are two, they are not without God: and where there is one alone I say I am with him.
www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=531&C=555   (9829 words)

  
 David Field: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Over the years, Field has also starred in TWO HANDS, BROKEN HIGHWAY, BLACKROCK, EXILE, ON OUR SELECTION, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, SAMPLE PEOPLE and the soon-to- be released features, DOGWATCH, SILENT PARTNER and Yahoo Serious' MR.
He also wrote and starred in the play DALI, staged at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre.
Over the years, Field has also starred in EARTHBOUND, SEEING RED, JUST DESSERTS, BROKEN HIGHWAY, EXILE, ON OUR SELECTION, THE SMALL MAN, STITCHED, A BLOW A KISS, BLACKROCK, TWO HANDS and the soon-to-be released features, THE ORDER, SAMPLE PEOPLE and the new comedy from director Yahoo Serious, MR.
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It is also inspired by additional information that can be found in the more recently discovered works of Dictys of Crete (Chronicle of the Trojan War) (t.n.
original discovered as a fragment of the Oxyrhyncus Papri in 1905-06) and Quintus of Smyrna (The Rest of Homer) (“Posthomerica”).
Designer’s Note: To those who would say that I was influenced by the lamentable “
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Photos of P21 taken by Tim Young (35mm film, then scanned)
The following are candid shots of some of my students examining the two fragments shown above or other papyrus MSS from Muhlenberg's Oxyrhyncus collection.
In the first photo below, Dr. Michael Clark, Professor of Ancient History at Muhlenberg who hosted our visit, is on the right.
faculty.bbc.edu /rdecker/classes/p21_2.htm   (424 words)

  
 UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
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Handling guideline, composition and processing yields of cultured Gulf of Mexico Sturgeon (Ancipenser oxyrhyncus desotoi)
Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, Volume 14, Number 10, page 5-16 - 2005
www.sfos.uaf.edu /publications/index.php?idAuthor=2242   (213 words)

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