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A very ancient papyrus document, featuring a psalm in Coptic which has been variously proposed to be Christian, Jewish, or Manichaean, is due to by auctioned by Christie\u2019s. Alin Suciu has more information on his blog, as well as a call for some institution to purchase it and ensure that it remains available for scholarly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,141,152],"tags":[706,889,1835,1850,2193,5706,6947,6961,8691,9687],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-gnosticism","category-judaism-religion","tag-apocryphal","tag-auction","tag-christian","tag-christies","tag-coptic","tag-jewish","tag-manichaean","tag-manuscript","tag-papyrus","tag-psalm"],"yoast_head":"\n
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