[HN Gopher] A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen ... ___________________________________________________________________ A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel Author : theprop Score : 41 points Date : 2020-01-09 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com) | Jedd wrote: | > which would make it the oldest surviving manuscript of the New | Testament, copied less than 30 years after Mark had actually | written it. | | I thought it was well understood that 'Mark' didn't write this, | at least not the Mark the book is named after, and that we're not | really sure who did write that first story, or indeed precisely | when or where. | AnimalMuppet wrote: | That's disputed, not "well understood". | pulisse wrote: | A gem from near the end of TFA: | | > At present, just over 20 papyri are displayed on the museum's | website, out of 5,000. I asked Holmes whether one can therefore | conclude that the Greens own around 4,980 papyri that lack | reliable provenance. "In general, yes," said Holmes. | pnathan wrote: | Fascinating stuff. Brings to mind the fact that much of earlier | antiquity artifacts were plain looted into museums, etc. Mummies | were made into artists' paint, for instance. | danharaj wrote: | There was a fad where posh victorians were really into eating | mummies. | jimhefferon wrote: | > I have stolen, removed or sold items | | No Oxford comma? | sudosteph wrote: | In case anyone else is interested, I found that the org that | handles the the papyri has a really cool write-up about how they | handle the digitization process. | | http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/imaging/imaging.html | | According to the article: . Over the past century, just over | 5,000 of the half-million Oxyrhynchus papyri have been published. | | So between the large data set and scanning process, I'm hopeful | that all of these (and other) ancient manuscripts will be shared | publicly. I love imagining all the potential studies we can do | with proper machine learning once we have the data set. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-09 23:00 UTC)