Nerd Party Time!
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is getting opened up after many years. It's possible that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed. Excerpt:
In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament.
Eric Scheske majored in History at the University of Michigan, with an emphasis on classical studies. This is pretty exciting for him. Of course, with a family of seven children, pretty much anything can be exciting.
We should also add: We find it extremely unlikely that they'll uncover any new gospels. Wonder what the Vegas odds are on that? We're giving 10-to-1.
Thanks, Thumos, for the nerd alert.
