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This is a fairly well known Christian burial shroud from Oxyrhynchus with a Greek inscription that parallels a portion of Gospel of Thomas saying 5: "Jesus says, There is nothing buried that will not be raised.' " A couple points are especially interesting. This line parallels what is found in a Greek version of the Gospel of Thomas also found at Oxyrhynchus, but it is not cited in the Coptic version of the Gospel of Thomas found near Nag Hammadi. Like the Greek Oxyrhynchus fragments of the Gospel of Thomas, the present tense is used in the Greek quotation formula on the shroud, and this syntactical matter is allowing us to reconsider the Coptic verbal form used in the Nag Hammadi Codex II version. - Dr. Marvin Meyer, Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Chapman University. Funerary strip with a quote from the Gospel of Thomas found at Oxyrhynchos (Bahnasā, Egypt).
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