Show GREAT GREA FIND OF r EGYPTOLOGISTS ISIS Over Boxes of Papyri Go Going Going Going ing as Far Back as Sec See Second Second ond and Century B C Chicago Nov Ko 29 9 A cable dispatch to the Tribune from London says sas It now is possible pos ible to give further de details details details tails of or the remarkable find of papyri pap ri rias as a result of oE the efforts of Doctors Grenfell and Hunt of the branch of the Egypt exploration fund at The find consists of no fewer than ICO boxes of papyri rang ranging rangIng ranging ing in date from the second century B BC BC BC C to the sixth century A D They comprise all classes of literature many fragments of lost or even unknown classical works and some most important Important Important tant fragments unknown to Christian literature Several Lines of Gospel The most important find is a vellum leaf containing fort fie lines of gospel which has a variation from the author authorized authorized authorized version The subject is the visit of Jesus and his disciples to the temple of Jerusalem and their meeting there therl therewith therewith with the Pharisee who rebukes them with their failure to perform the necessary necessary necessary sary ceremonial of purification In the dialogue which follows follow which resembles in some respects Matthew 2325 the Pharisee describes with considerable fullness and arid detail the formalities he has observed whereupon Jesus delivers deli delivers ers an nn eloquent crushing reply con contrasting contrasting contrasting outward with inward purity purit Great Literary Value As regards the literary value alue of the fragment the discoverer makes mal es some interesting remarks He says Among the most remarkable fea features features features tures of the fragment is its cultivated style vigor of phrase phraseology phraseology phraseology which includes several words not found in the New Testaments and its display of curious familiarity with the topography of the temple and the Jew Jewish Jewish Jewish ish ceremonies of purification There can be little doubt that when the frag fragment fragment ment is published as it shortly will be that there will be as much controversy among theologians as was provided by bythe bythe bythe the discovery of The Sayings of Jesus in another mound Acts of Peter and John Other Christian fragments of con considerable considerable considerable value were found including a vellum ellum leaf of the fourth or fifth cen century century century tury of the lost Greek original of the Acts of St Peter which are known only in I Latin atin and a leaf of papyrus of or oran an unknown version of the Acts of St StJohn StJohn StJohn John The finds in the section of classical literature re are most The first Is a papyrus containing no fewer than thirteen columns of over oyer sixty lines of paeans of Pindar in good pres preservation preservation and portions of several more columns Some Greek Tragedies Next in importance is a roll con containing containing containing about a hundred lines of the tragedy of of Euripides and many fragments of ot Plato the speech of Demosthenes against and some of the manuscript fragments of the poems of Sappho Mention also should be made malle of an unknown history of Greece which dif differs differs differs fers in many respects from that of Xenophon It will take a long time to unroll join and examine this important find findall findall findall all of which has been removed to Eng England England England land but the explorers are to be con congratulated conI congratulated on their brilliant harvest of I literature |