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From a dump in Egypt to a criminal case in Oxford to a seminary in Texas, this fragmentary record of faith traveled a strange path.

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

I want to announce and celebrate the publication of a really valuable new book, and I say from the outset that I had nothing whatever to do with writing

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor all of Christianity’s influence today, the archeological evidence for the first two centuries of the religion’s existence is notoriously thin. This is why the publication of a previously unknown second-century fragment of early Christian writing this week is so significant. Written before the formation of a New Testament or even the widespread recognition of a collection of Christian sacred scripture, this fragmentary page from a

Papyrologists date the fragment to the second century CE, making it one of the earliest examples of Christian writing, even before the formation of the New Testament.