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Lincoln H. Blumell with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner: Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on Psalms 26:10–29:2 and 36:1–3 (P.BYU I). Turnhout (Brepols) 2019, XV+ 210 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-58370-9, € 100,–.

Lincoln H. Blumell with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner: Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on... This volume is most welcome and long awaited, not only because these papyri belong to a hoard that contains the only existing copy of some works of Didymus the Blind, but also because of the importance of the Tura codices in the history of Early Christianity in Egypt. The pages of Didymus edited in this book come from a discovery in the summer of 1941, near the modern village of Tura, in the outskirts of ancient Memphis and about 12 km from Cairo. The place is famous since antiquity for its limestone quarries. The Tura papyri were hidden for centuries in those quarries, in one of the galleries excavated in the time of the Pharaohs to extract the valuable stone. During World War II the British military authorities wanted to use these galleries as ammunition stores. During the cleaning and consolidation works of cave 35 the workers came across a deposit of papyrus codices that had been hidden or put away together at the foot of a wall. The dry climate of Egypt and the protection afforded by the quarry make these among the best-preserved papyrus codices known, in spite of efforts to destroy them at the moment of disposal in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity de Gruyter

Lincoln H. Blumell with Thomas W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner: Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on Psalms 26:10–29:2 and 36:1–3 (P.BYU I). Turnhout (Brepols) 2019, XV+ 210 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-58370-9, € 100,–.

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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0949-9571
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10.1515/zac-2022-0035
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This volume is most welcome and long awaited, not only because these papyri belong to a hoard that contains the only existing copy of some works of Didymus the Blind, but also because of the importance of the Tura codices in the history of Early Christianity in Egypt. The pages of Didymus edited in this book come from a discovery in the summer of 1941, near the modern village of Tura, in the outskirts of ancient Memphis and about 12 km from Cairo. The place is famous since antiquity for its limestone quarries. The Tura papyri were hidden for centuries in those quarries, in one of the galleries excavated in the time of the Pharaohs to extract the valuable stone. During World War II the British military authorities wanted to use these galleries as ammunition stores. During the cleaning and consolidation works of cave 35 the workers came across a deposit of papyrus codices that had been hidden or put away together at the foot of a wall. The dry climate of Egypt and the protection afforded by the quarry make these among the best-preserved papyrus codices known, in spite of efforts to destroy them at the moment of disposal in

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Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2022

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