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Homily

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  • First published:
  • 3rd century
  • Language: Greek
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source

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.

  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “Prophecy” in the description.

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Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 2 digitized image(s); Papyrus; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Gr. th. f. 9 (P)

3rd century, late or 4th century, earlyGreekPublic reader

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  • 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.
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