Rylands Papyrus 463

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Papyrus 463 is a copy of the Apocryphal Gospel of Mary in Greek that is kept with the Rylands Papyri in the John Rylands Library in Manchester . It is a papyrus - manuscript in roll form. The manuscript was assigned to the third century through paleography . It is one of three manuscripts and one of two surviving Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary. It is longer than the Papyrus Oxyrhynchus L 3525 (POxy 3525).

description

Only a small fragment of a single leaf, presumably from a scroll, stood the test of time. The fragment is broken on all sides and contains the material that has also come down to the Coptic manuscript in 7.4-19.5. Reconstructing the missing parts (especially the beginnings and ends of the lines) is not an easy task and one has to rely on the Coptic text. The completed form of the Greek text can only be conjectured on the basis of the Coptic version of Codex Berolinensis Gnosticus 8502 . The manuscript is fragmentary and shows two mistakes.

There are some differences between the Greek fragment and the Coptic text. The noun sacra are written in an abbreviated form. The text was published by CH Roberts in 1938. Today the manuscript is under the signature Gr. P. 463 in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tuckett, Christopher (2007) The Gospel of Mary . Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 7.
  2. ^ Tuckett (2007), p. 9.
  3. ^ Tuckett (2007), p. 10.
  4. ^ Parsons, PJ (1983) 3525: Gospel of Mary . London: Egypt Exploration Society

literature

  • CH Roberts: Gospel of Mary . In: CH Roberts (Ed.): Catalog of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester . Volume 3: Theological and literary Texts. (Nos. 457-551) . The John Rylands Library, Manchester 1938, pp. 18-23.
  • Walter Curt Till (ed.): The Gnostic Writings of the Coptic Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, translated and edited, texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature 60, 1st ed. 1955, 2nd ed. von HU Schenke, 1971 pp. 24-32 and pp. 62-79.
  • Dieter Lührmann: The Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary POxy 3525 and PRyl 463 . In: Novum Testamentum 30 (1988), ISSN  0048-1009 , pp. 321-338.

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