Oxyrhynchos (El-Bahnasa)
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Oxyrhynchos (now El-Bahnasa, Middle Egypt) is famous for the thousands of papyri unearthed from 1896 onward. Among these documents are contracts, letters, and religious texts revealing a significant Jewish presence in the first through fourth centuries of the Common Era. These papyri constitute a primary source for the history of Jews in Roman and Byzantine Egypt.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Oxyrhynchos (El-Bahnasa) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day
Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
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