


His research showed the bits of papyrus to be significantly older, written about a.d.

180-200-were reevaluated by scholar Carsten Peter Thiede. Nearly a century later, the fragments-part of the Gospel of Matthew and thought to date from a.d. He donated these papyrus fragments to his alma mater, Magdalen College in Oxford, England, where they sat in a display case and drew very little attention. Huleatt acquired three pieces of a New Testament manuscript on the murky antiquities market of Luxor, Egypt.
