Christian scholars who attended last week’s Society of Biblical Literature conference in Chicago left with one more blessing to count over their Thanksgiving holiday—a newly discovered papyrus fragment containing Romans 9:18-21 and parts of Romans 10, which are thought to be from the early third century.
Scholars Grant Edwards and Nick Zola presented a report on the fragment at the annual conference and shared that the manuscript would be published in the first volume of a new series called Green Scholars Initiative: Papyrus Series, edited by Dirk Obbink and Jerry Pattengale. The fragment is a part of the Green Collection, assembled by the Green family, founders of the Hobby Lobby retail chain.
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