Homily
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- First published:
- 3rd century
- Language: Greek
- Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
Description
Described by Grenfell and Hunt as a 'fragment of a Christian homily or treatise on the spirit of prophecy'. A. Harnack in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 36 (1898), 516-520 identified that lines 1-9 quote from Hermas, Pastor, 11.9.10, and suggested that the text as a whole could be a fragment of the treatise by Melito of Sardis, De prophetia, recorded by Eusebius; see further H. Paulsen in New Testament Studies 25/4 (1979), 443-453. Homily
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.
Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “Prophecy” in the description.
- “prophecy”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- “Prophecy”· in description
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital Bodleian digitized manuscript Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 2 digitized image(s); Papyrus; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Gr. th. f. 9 (P) | 3rd century, late or 4th century, early | — | Greek | — | Public reader |
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Cataloging notes
- Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Gr. th. f. 9 (P)
- Collection: Greek and Latin Papyri
- Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- Place of origin: Egypt, Oxyrhynchus (?)
- Record origin: Description summarized from B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus papyri I (1898) no. 5, with additional reference to published literature as cited.
- Rights and attribution: Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Terms of use: CC BY-NC 4.0 . For more information, please see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/
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- digital-bodleian:40f5a68c-e397-46d8-856a-3aee98b711c4
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