An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was discovered alongside more than 20 other codices near Dishna, Egypt, in 1952.
An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts.
This ancient library shows how, before the consolidation of the Bible, early Christians read canonical and non-canonical scriptures—as well as pagan classics—side by side.The middle decades of the 20th century were exciting years for scholars of early Christianity. The “Dead Sea Scrolls” found in this and a dozen subsequently discovered caves constituted a massive library of Jewish texts, including biblical works and hitherto unknown texts with remarkable parallels to the writings of the New Testament.
Two manuscripts of the canonical gospels, Luke and John, belonging to this ancient library predate almost every other surviving copy of these gospels.For instance, the vast majority of manuscripts of the Gospel of John describe Jesus as “the only-begotten Son” . The discoveries at Dishna provide evidence that these writings, though unfamiliar to modern readers of the Bible, spent centuries on the periphery of Christian scripture.One codex in this mostly Christian library contains several comedies by the Hellenistic playwright Menander.
The Crosby-Schøyen Codex itself contains five texts in Sahidic Coptic, a dialect of the ancient Egyptian language.
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