Resumen de Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources ed. by Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment (review)
Christian origins and New Testament enthusiasts will encounter within this volume the primary surviving Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus, the Egyptian darling-child of every papyrologist and the principal source of Greco-Roman era manuscripts. Whereas editors have compiled various anthologies of texts, translations and images of ancient Christian literature, this monograph capitalizes on the systematic excavation and publication of the ancient city’s papyri in a defined-yet-comprehensive survey of ancient material culture and literature, selecting witnesses to the city’s Christian legacy. While the critical apparatus to the New Testament papyri presents novel and robust assessments of the evidence, the introductory materials synthesize the obsolete textual assessments of Eldon Epp, not recognizing for instance the impact of the Münster Text und Textwert enterprise, which problematized such groupings.
