It seems a wrestling manual has been uncovered dated A.D. 200.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/f ... =oly-wp818
World's Oldest Sports Manual Found
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Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found
Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago. (I don't have a library available to verify this.)
It is bizarre in the extreme to see it listed as a newsarticle of a recent discovery. The news media in question just lost a few points in reliability.
It is bizarre in the extreme to see it listed as a newsarticle of a recent discovery. The news media in question just lost a few points in reliability.
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Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found
Randall Buth wrote:
Could've, should've, would've — apparently it was not since it is located at Columbia University rather than with the other papyri from Oxyrhynchus. It isn't in the Duke database of papyri.Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago
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Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found
You can read it at http://www.archive.org/stream/oxyrhynch ... 3/mode/2upGeorge F Somsel wrote:Randall Buth wrote:Could've, should've, would've — apparently it was not since it is located at Columbia University rather than with the other papyri from Oxyrhynchus. It isn't in the Duke database of papyri.Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago
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Co-Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
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