The fate of the Crosby-Schøyen Codex

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM. AND THAT'S WHERE IT IS: The Anonymous Buyer of One of World’s Oldest Books? The Green Collection. Scholars worried that the text had disappeared from the public, but the Crosby-Schøyen Codex is now on display at the Museum of the Bible (Emily Belz, Christianity Today).

The buyer of one of the oldest books in existence is no longer anonymous, and the book is viewable by the public after scholars fretted that it had disappeared into unknown private hands.

The Green Collection, connected to the Museum of the Bible, revealed that it purchased the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which contains what is perhaps the earliest complete versions of Jonah and 1 Peter, at an auction last year.

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HT Brent Nongbri at Variant Readings.

This is very good news!

We last saw the Coptic Crosby-Schøyen Codex when it was sold at a Christie's auction in June of 2024. For many PaleoJudaica posts, follow the links from there. Two substantive posts are here and here.

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