in the Holy Land or fourteen hundred years ago in the Egyptian desert. Papyrus Bodmer L, P73, is one of the tiniest New Testament fragments ever found, and yet, because of what it still says to us, it remains a direct link to the Egyptian desert years of Jesus and to his message on the Mount of Olives. Sometimes, the broader context which we encounter in the historical traces may open up unexpected vistas. There is, for example, one large part of the ancient world where the Romans never settled and