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Sep 22, 2026
Pete NicholasHOST
And the dates we have from the manuscripts to when the events happened is hundreds of years, three, four hundred years, right? But we have with Christianity, we have thousands of manuscripts and we have them.
Pete NicholasHOST
For example, the John Rylands fragment Papyrus, which is in Manchester, is from just a few decades after.
Pete NicholasHOST
And we actually have the physical fragment.
Pete NicholasHOST
And you can I mean, I've done this exercise where you can like.
Madison ReyesHOST
So literally like old pieces of linen and cotton was collected, sorted, packed, cleaned, broken down into fibers and then mixed with water into like a pulp and then formed into sheets of paper.
Spencer HenryHOST
Papyrus paper.
Madison ReyesHOST
Papyrus, exactly.
Madison ReyesHOST
I sometimes stumble upon like videos of people making their own paper from like egg cartons and they grind it up and blend it with water and it's kind of relaxing to watch.
Madison ReyesHOST
Anyway, rags were a very valuable commodity back in the 1800s.
KatyHOST
No. Mango.
KatyHOST
No. Papyrus.
KatyHOST
No.
KatyHOST
Got one more.
Federica NicolardiGUEST
Uh, and then at my master's, I took all the possible classes in papyrology, and I kind of said, "Okay, this is my-- this is where I want to go." And so I decided to study more and more papyrology.
Federica NicolardiGUEST
And of course, the opportunity, uh, to study in Naples means that you can have an advantage, uh, with a very good relationship with the Herculaneum Papyrus that are stored.
Federica NicolardiGUEST
Most of them are stored in, in Naples at the National Library, in
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Federica NicolardiGUEST
So I started, start studying at Herculaneum Papyrus, and then that's it.
BennyHOST
And, and, yeah, Maria Chiara, what is your relationship to this, uh, you know, this subject? And also what drew you to study papyrology?
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Maria Chiara RobustelliGUEST
So you would have theoretically and also practically, as you will see, uh, the possibility to, uh, see the internal structure of the scroll.
Joe PulizziHOST
Do it the old-fashioned way.
Joe PulizziHOST
Papyrus.
Joe PulizziHOST
Papyrus.
Robert RoseHOST
Papyrus.
Robert RoseHOST
Here's my quill.
Robert RoseHOST
I picked...
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
Clay tablets carried omens.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
Papyrus carried spells.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
manuscripts carried prohibited knowledge across centuries translation moved cosmologies between languages printing multiplied ideas that secrecy had once controlled later photography changed what a ghost could look like the telegraph gave spirit communication a new technological metaphor a Radio created invisible voices.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
The photocopier broke restricted texts out of controlled chains of transmission.
Greg LanierGUEST
And so they were aware of something in the second century.
Greg LanierGUEST
The earliest manuscript we have of it is the Bodmer Papyrus No. 5, which would be like third century, maybe a little bit later, and nearly intact in Greek.
Greg LanierGUEST
And essentially what this writing is, is yet again another attempt of shoring up high Christology, but doing it in a way that's quite interesting by shoring up Mary.
Greg LanierGUEST
because it's really about her backstory.
IanHOST
The Egyptians wrote stuff down.
IanHOST
Papyrus was quite a big thing for them.
CarrieHOST
Was Moses before or after the Egyptians?
IanHOST
He was after, during.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
Hats and that.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
Papyrus! Fuck yeah.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
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