New Papyrus Discovered Containing Sayings of Jesus! #POxy5575

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575 has just been published. It is a new text containing sayings of Jesus, tentatively dated to the 2nd Century CE.
This document appears to be a collection of sayings about worry, primarily drawing from the Gospel of Thomas, Luke 12 and Matthew 6.

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The text itself is available in: Volume 87 of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Edited by Peter J. Parsons and Nikolaos Gonis. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2023

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[podacre]

Nice accessible summary, and I appreciate your nice synopsis. What intrigues me is that Gospel of Thomas 63 parallels Luke 12.16-21 (and I have argued that Thomas's version is derived from Luke's), and so the author of the work to which this fragment witnesses does seem to be following Luke's order.

[edwardmiessner]

Splendid presentation! Very informative.

[josephthomas]

thanks for a good overview. Very helpful!

I would, however, take issue with the statement that this tells us that early Christian communities were ok with fluidity of the text. You cannot derive that conclusion from this one fragment. I think that is overstating the case.

We COULD say that whoever wrote P Oxy 5575 was comfortable quoting (apparently from memory, as it seems to be paraphrased) from multiple sources regarding sayings of Jesus - including, it seems, "Thomas". Perhaps he thought Thomas was scriptural, or maybe he thought it contained useful information, but was not scriptural. No way to know from this small sample.

Today, I might quote verses from memory from more than 1 gospel, mixed in with a quote from CS Lewis or William Lane Craig and none of them would be exact, but that would not necessarily mean I was OK with a loose rendering of scripture, or that I thought Lewis or Craig were inspired.

[SydneyApplebaum]

Funny, i recently pulled these texts together (except for thomas) becuase I'm teaching a bible study related to the idea of wealth and provision.

[jesaispasjesaispas]

1:58 - 2:16 that's why we believe in Allah☝️

[Rafael-Bravo]

My friend. Someday you will have to face The Living God Jesus Christ The Almighty. Repent, you still have time.

[Roko]

Honey, a new gnostic fake just dropped !

[rocketmangenesis]

These early writings indicate that the derivation of the sayings and stories of Jesus and his emissaries are from preceding sources of Jewish heroic fiction and then heroic tales of small communities influenced by different Jewish revolts and zealots; malleable stories shaped by various purposes that ultimately took on a life of its own as a whole. Because of the latter "widespread interest" in "who are the Jews" upon the destruction of Jerusalem, these malleable stories evolved dramatically, morphing into "a popular man" a century later with books upon books filling in "gaps of questions" for various reasons by random writers. In other words, there was no one superhero with apostles present really there that saved the day or who actually played a decisive role or brought about substantial change in historical events.

[Breakthewheelorg]

What is the portrait of Jesus in the thumbnail? Jesus was Aryan. Dont fall for the all-new, so enlightened perspectives of today.