Releasing this week is what looks like a substantial new book on Christian text from Oxyrhynchus titled Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sourcesby Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment.Hardcover: 752 pages
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1602585393
From the publisher's blurb:
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1602585393
From the publisher's blurb:
Blumell and Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE.Christian Oxyrhynchus provides new and expanded editions of Christian literary and documentary texts that include updated readings, English translations––some of which represent the first English translation of a text––and comprehensive notes.
The volume features New Testament texts carefully collated against other textual witnesses and a succinct introduction for each Oxyrhynchus text that provides information about the date of the papyrus, its unique characteristics, and textual variants. Documentary texts are grouped both by genre and date, giving readers access to the Decian Libelli, references to Christians in third- and fourth-century texts, and letters written by Christians. A compelling resource for researchers, teachers, and students, Christian Oxyrhynchus enables broad access to these crucial primary documents beyond specialists in papyrology, Greek, Latin, and Coptic.
We asked the publishers for a review copy so that we could report as to whether the book was any good or not, but they said, "Due to the size and cost of this book, we are not able to mail physical copies for review in Britain." So we don't know at this point of time whether this book is any good or not. Hence: caveat emptor.