Papyrus 132 (P. Oxy. 81 5258 — Ephesians 3:21–4:2; 4:14–16)
Apostle Paul
A scrap the size of a postage stamp. It ran off mid-word when it tore, and it still runs off mid-word now.
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Very low. A scrap three and a half centimetres square, holding a few letters of each verse and nothing else.
What did survive is Ephesians 4 — the body knit together, and the warning about being blown around by clever men. Small, and it argues like the letter it came off.
The letters on 𝔓132 are certain. Almost everything around them is reconstruction from other copies, and a text that thin cannot defend much.
Published in 2016, and known almost entirely to papyrologists. Nobody recalls it quickly because almost nobody has heard of it.
Found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt; 3rd or 4th century; now in the Sackler Library, Oxford (P. Oxy. 81 5258). It was the first attestation of Ephesians ever recovered from Oxyrhynchus, and it sat in the collection for decades before anyone published it in 2016.
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every Wind of Doctrine | Rationality | Argument | 60 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 24 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 28 | Speaking Truth in Love | Ecclesiology | Argument | 65 | 100% | 15 |
| 33 | To Him Be the Glory | Spirituality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
How to read these. In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other. Each thing a book can do in a debate is a move, and most moves carry a real quotation — the words the book puts on the table when it uses that move.
Strong against lists the opposing books and arguments a move was written to answer. Used against one of them, it hits much harder than usual: ×2 means twice the normal force, ×4 four times. It is the game’s way of saying: this is the sentence that answers that argument. Open an entry to read why.
“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”
Ephesians 4:14 (WEB) — the passage 𝔓132 attests on its second side.
In the gameName the trick out loud — the drift, the craftiness, the practised shift of ground — and it stops working. The foe may find its Contend fallen.
“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies… makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:15–16 (WEB, trimmed quote) — the passage 𝔓132 attests. 𝔓49 attests verse 16 as well: two scraps, found separately, overlapping on one line.
In the gameTruth said in love and love that tells the truth — Paul will not let a reader pick one. The whole body grows by it.
“to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:21 (WEB) — the passage 𝔓132 attests; the fragment holds a few letters of this verse and breaks off into chapter 4.
In the gameA doxology, not an argument. The book stops defending itself and hands the glory over — and greatly raises its own Defend by doing it.