What an uproar over a dash of writing on a scrap of papyrus! To me, the curious thing is not what is written there, nor what it says or implies. What interests me is the emotional reaction to what may well be another piece of the puzzle of earliest Christianities. There were so many little congregations and interpretations of what we call Gospel, in those first centuries, but we, two millenia later, have come to believe that there was ever only one that was correct. That is, of course, an... Sign in to see full entry.