Oxyrhynchus spawned a whole new sub-discipline of classics: papyrology.

奥克西林库斯催生了古典学的一个全新分支学科：纸质文献学（papyrology）。

Over the past century, just over 5,000 of the half-million Oxyrhynchus papyri have been published.

在过去一个世纪里，奥克西林库斯的纸质文献中的五十万份中，仅有五千多份被出版。

The Oxyrhynchus project is its own little fiefdom.

奥克西林库斯项目是一个独立的小领地。

In 2011, a researcher on the Oxyrhynchus Project had identified it as from the first chapter of Mark.

在 2011 年，奥克西林库斯项目的一位研究人员确认了这份文献来自《马可福音》的第一章。

At the other end of this disturbing chain is someone who stole and sold Oxyrhynchus fragments to the evangelical billionaires.

在这个令人不安的链条的另一端是将奥克西林库斯碎片窃取并出售给福音派亿万富翁的人。

They are part of the Oxyrhynchus collection of ancient papyrus, owned by the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) and housed at Oxford's Sackler Library.

这些物品是古代纸草文献的奥西林库斯（Oxyrhynchus）收藏品的一部分，由埃及探险学会（Egypt Exploration Society，简称 EES）拥有，并存放在牛津大学萨克勒图书馆。

Each appearance of a volume in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Series — there are now 83 — is a real event for classicists, historians, theologians.

奥克西林库斯纸质文献系列中的每一卷（目前已经有 83 卷）的出版对古典学家、历史学家和神学家们都是重大的时刻。

He added: " I have a hard time believing that he stole Oxyrhynchus papyri in cold blood and sold them to Hobby Lobby."

“我很难相信他会冷血地偷走奥克西林库斯文献并将其卖给霍比洛比公司。”

That seemingly tiny piece of information would, later, turn out to be a crucial clue in putting together the story of the alleged thefts from the Oxyrhynchus collection.

这条看似微不足道的信息后来被证明是一个重要的线索，可以用来整理奥西林库斯藏品中涉嫌盗窃的故事。

All these academics have, for different reasons, a strong interest in the Oxyrhynchus collection — half a million ancient papyrus fragments that have transformed knowledge of the Greco-Roman world.

出于各种不同的原因，所有这些学者都对奥西林库斯收藏品表现出浓厚的兴趣——这个收藏品包括了 50 万个古代纸草片段，它们已经彻底改变了人们对希腊罗马世界的了解。

A hunch led them to dig out some low mounds in the village of el-Behnesa, the site of the ancient Greek city of Oxyrhynchus, founded after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC.

一种直觉驱使他们在埃及村庄 el-Behnesa（古希腊城市奥西林库斯的遗址）上进行挖掘，这座城市是在公元前 332 年，亚历山大大帝征服埃及后建立的。