Talk:Oxyrhynchus Papyri

message: The more accurately descriptive title here is List of Oxyrhyncus New Testament papyri, which describes what's been written. Such a title leaves open the poissibility of a List of Oxyrhynchus classical Greek papyri, which might be of interest to someone. Anyone object to the move? --Wetman 14:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, my concern is we have List of New Testament papyri. If we move this article (instead of expanding it), then we will have to articles with redundant content, except the Oxyrhynchus article will be a shorter list. If anything, this article, if it isn't expanding to include other articles, should be merged with the general NT papyri list article. We could perhaps highlight the P. Oxy.'s with a light red color on the table. Another suggestion brought up at CfD regarding the P. Oxy. categories was to move this article to Oxyrhynchus papyri and expand the content. And that could work if we removed the big NT papyri table (which, as stated, is basically redundent with List of New Testament papyri). Ok, so in summary. I suggest we move this article to Oxyrhynchus papyri and expand it so it doesn't just cover the NT, then merge the NT table with List of New Testament papyri.-Andrew c 16:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: Woohoo! Got four of them from here. IV 658, XII 1464, XLI 2990, LVIII 3929. I'm not sure if this is where we get the word libel from. I think there's a good chance it is. I can feel a new article coming on! :D Alastair Haines 11:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shhh! Don't tell anyone. I did some Original research on the libelli. One of them is dated, but not recorded in the sources I use. ;) Alastair Haines 15:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: We all know that the majority of Oxyrhynchus manuscripts are not biblical, yet the focus of this article is clearly on the biblical. I have suggested in the past spinning this article off to something like Biblical Oxyrhynchus Papyri, but that suggest was rejected at the time. If we are going to keep this article about the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, then we need to greatly expand it. Quite a while ago, I worked up a table on the Homeric texts, see User:Andrew_c/test. Would someone care to look over that table and give comment on it (and if people like it, we can make whatever modifications and import it into this article). Then, if there is motivation, we can start working on expanding sections on other texts. What do other editors think is important to cover? I think Homer, for hopefully obvious reasons, is a good area to start, but what other topics and authors do you think are important to add to this page?-Andrew c [talk] 02:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone watching this page, want to help collaborate on this?-Andrew c [talk] 23:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-biblical ''P. oxy'' 

message: Hello, I would be most grateful if someone could add details of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri held by the National Library of Wales, in the correct place, as there is currently no mention of them on this page. Thanks Jason.nlw (talk) 11:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection at the National Library of Wales 

message: I noticed that a great deal of recent work has been conducted on this article so I thought I would bring to attention the fact that this article incredibly narrowly focusses only on Bible-related papyri, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri contain Greek writings completely unrelated to the Bible or early Christianity. For some reason, these works are only briefly mentioned in the lede and never discussed anywhere in the article itself, which focusses exclusively on Biblical manuscripts and documents related to the Bible. It is good that this information is in here, but the scope of this article needs to be broadened. For instance, it should at least discuss other works such as Sophocles's Ichneutae, and the many, many fragments of authors like Sappho and Menander, previously thought to have been lost forever, that were recovered amidst the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Also deserving of mention are the various non-literary works such as letters, wills, and various other miscellania recovered amongst the Papyri of Oxyrhynchus that have no literary value, but which reveal a considerable amount of information about daily life. --Katolophyromai (talk) 02:13, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a fine idea to me. I may help out a little bit as you reorganize, but I am not really planning on helping out too much here, because I am already busy working on some other articles, but I thought I would make this suggestion since I noticed that the narrow focus of the article seemed rather startling and there were several people who had been recently working on it. Thank you for listening to my suggestion. --Katolophyromai (talk) 14:33, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  It would also be useful to get a better sense of which text genres are actually typical, and roughly how typical. What do representative papyri actually look like? How does that change over the centuries, as far as it does change at all? My understanding is that most papyri by far are quite mundane letters and witnesses to local bureaucracy. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:15, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

text: To be fair, the introduction does cover that issue already pretty sufficiently ... --Florian Blaschke (talk) 00:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works of Greek literature among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri 

message: I'm thinking of starting a Manuscripts WikiProject. Would you be interested in such a thing? The first step is apparently to go to the talk pages of all the articles linked to the Manuscripts category  page (and it's various subcategory pages), and encourage people to add their name to the as yet unlaunched WikiProject list. I'd officially propose the WikiProject first, of course. 
It's clearly a lot of work. But we wouldn't have to be in a hurry. And Wikipedia probably has a great group of editors, and editor wannabes, in search of each other!
ALSO: how could there not be a Paleaographer page? That's ridiculous!
Fb2ts (talk) 11:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: September 2017: Manuscripts WikiProject in start-up mode