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Word: papyrologists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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Thigh Bone. So far, however, the man who has linked the scrolls fragment to the Gospel of Mark makes no such extravagant claims for his theory. Spanish Jesuit Josó O'Callaghan, 49, a highly regarded papyrologist at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, offers his finding in the current issue of the institute's quarterly, Biblica, only as a hypothesis. The most important fragment he has studied is a jagged, thumbnail-sized piece of papyrus containing only 17 letters, which cut vertically across five lines of text. His technique for identifying it and other fragments-a standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eyewitness Mark? | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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