Berlin Genesis
The Berlin Genesis (No. 911 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a papyrus manuscript from the 3rd or 4th century. It contains parts of the 1st book Mose 1,16-38,5 in Greek ( Septuagint ). There are 32 damaged sheets preserved, the first eleven in single columns, the others in two columns in irregular script in uncials . The text is very similar to the Chester Beatty Papyri IV and V .
The manuscript was acquired in Upper Egypt by the coptologist Carl Schmidt in 1906 and given to the Prussian State Library in Berlin . There it was under the signature P. Berlin fol. 66 I / II.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War , it was allegedly "found" by several people along with other papyri near Brodnica on the Toruń - Olsztyn railway line . It was probably on a train transport from Berlin to Königsberg and was sold by Soviet soldiers to private individuals in the area. In the 1960s or 1970s it was then given to the Institute for Papyrology at the University of Warsaw , where it is today with the signature Berlin, Cod. Gr. fol. 66 I, II is located. The fragments were digitized there.
Text output
- Henry A. Sanders, Carl Schmidt: The Minor Prophets in the Freer Gallery and the Berlin fragments of Genesis. New York 1927 ( questia.com ).
literature
- Alfred Rahlfs : Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament. Weidmann, Berlin 1914, p. 28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( katapi.org.uk ).
- Kurt Aland : Repertory of the Greek Christian Papyri I. Biblical Papyri: Old Testament, New Testament, Varia, Apocrypha (= Patristic Texts and Studies 18). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, pp. 68-69 (AT 1). ISBN 3-11-004674-1
- Ernst Würthwein : The text of the Old Testament. An introduction to the Biblia Hebraica. 5th edition, Stuttgart 1988, p. 198, plate 32. ISBN 3-438-06006-X