Description
Book SynopsisPresents a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. The book provides new and expanded editions of Christian literary and documentary texts that include updated readings, English translations and comprehensive notes.
Trade ReviewThis is an exceptionally useful volume...The material presented here will enrich understanding of the life and concerns of this significant early Christian community. -- Paul Foster -- Expository Times
This volume is sure to stimulate further investigation into the social, economic, and religious lives of Christians in Oxyrhynchus. -- Geoffrey S. Smith -- Review of Biblical Literature
Blumell and Wayment are competent and conscientious editors. We thank them for the results of their labours, which should bring these texts to an audience wider than that served by the original publications. -- Novum Testamentum
...Blumell and Wayment are to be congratulated for an impressive achievement: a much-needed resource, highly detailed and accurately executed. Anyone who has endured the constant searching and sifting of volume after volume of the Oxyrhynchus library will recognize immediately the value and convenience of this collection. In all, Christian Oxyrhynchus fills a glaring gap with an excellent and eminently useful tool for scholars as well as students who are interested in early Christianity, its people, and its texts. -- Zachary J. Cole -- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
For the first time specific sources for Christianity from the second to the fourth century are easily available to everyone. Besides, they are presented in an academically concise and responsible manner so that Christian Oxyrhynchus is definitely not just a popular book, it is a piece of research or, in other words, a tool for researchers to both start from and work with. The preciseness and accuracy, the wealth of information and details, the overall astoundingly correct orthography, and the paleographical details are dealt with in a very comprehensible manner even for non-experts. -- Thomas J. Kraus -- Early Christianity
Table of ContentsI. Introduction II. Christian Literary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus New Testament Texts Extracanonical Texts Other Christian Literary Texts III. Documentary Papyri and Christianity at Oxyrhynchus Decian Libelli Christian References in Third-Century Documentary Texts Christian References in Fourth-Century Documentary Texts Letters Written by Christians from the Third and Fourth Centuries IV. Patristic, Coptic, and Other Sources on Christians and Christianity at Oxyrhynchus Bibliography Scripture and Ancient Sources Index Manuscript Index Subject Index
