{"id":88132,"date":"2026-11-06T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88132"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:24","slug":"ancient-greek-papyrus-reveals-lost-account-of-jesus-descent-into-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ancient-greek-papyrus-reveals-lost-account-of-jesus-descent-into-the-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek Papyrus Reveals Lost Account of Jesus\u2019 Descent into the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Greek Reporter:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1600-year-old-ancient-greek-papyrus-with-the-lost-account-of-jesus-credit-amphilochios-papathomas-and-marianna-thoma-cc-by-40.jpg\" alt=\"1,600-year-old ancient Greek papyrus with the lost account of Jesus\" width=\"354\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ancient Greek papyrus held by Austria\u2019s national library may preserve a lost account of Jesus\u2019 descent into <span data-prompt-literal-paste=\"\">Hades (the underworld) <\/span>and resurrection, according to researchers who have published the fragment for the first time. The damaged Greek text refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/2026\/05\/22\/evolution-origins-christian-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">someone who died and a figure who descended and rose again<\/a>, language the scholars believe concerns Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The fragment, cataloged as P.Vindob. G 29289, was among unpublished manuscripts in the Austrian National Library\u2019s collection in Vienna. Amphilochios Papathomas and Marianna Thoma, researchers at the University of Athens, examined the writing and <a href=\"https:\/\/tyche.univie.ac.at\/index.php\/tyche\/article\/view\/10116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published their findings<\/a> in the journal \u201cTyche.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Greek Reporter: An ancient Greek papyrus held by Austria\u2019s national library may preserve a lost account of Jesus\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88133,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88132\/revisions\/88133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}