Magdalen Papyrus

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 64 , 67
Surname	Magdalen Papyrus
character	64 , 67
text	Matthew 3; 5; 26th
language	Greek
date	late 2nd / 3rd century
Found	Coptus , Egypt
Storage location	Montserrat Monastery , Scriptorium Biblicum et Orientale , P. Mont. Roca 1; ; Oxford , Magdalen College , Gr. 18th
size	20 × 14 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

The Magdalen papyrus (nos. 64 and 67 after Gregory-Aland ) is an early Greek manuscript of the New Testament . It contains verses 3: 9, 15 from the Gospel of Matthew; 5.20-22.25-28; 26.7-8.10.14-15.22-23.31-33. The five fragments have a size of 20 × 14 cm and are described in two columns with 38-39 lines.

history

Some fragments were acquired in Luxor , Egypt in 1901 by the Anglican priest Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863-1908). He identified them as parts of the Gospel of Matthew . He handed them over to Magdalen College in Oxford, where they were cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 ( Gregory-Aland ⁶⁴ ) and thus received their name. ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

The first publication was in 1953 by Colin H. Roberts with some photographs of the fragments. He characterized the manuscript as “an early forerunner of the so-called 'biblical uncial manuscript'”, which began to develop at the end of the 2nd century. This uncial style is embodied in the later biblical Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus . The fragments are written on both sides, so they are not from a scroll, but from a codex .

Further fragments were published in 1956 by the Spanish theologian Ramón Roca-Puig and first as P. Barc. Inv. 1 (Gregory-Aland ⁶⁷ ). Roca-Puig and Roberts were finally able to assign them to the same codex as the Magdalen Fragments. These fragments are now in the Montserrat Monastery with the signature P. Mont. Roca 1. ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

Dating

Originally, Charles Huelatt dated ⁶⁴ to the third century. He had given the manuscript to Magdalen College. The papyrologist A. S. Hunt later examined the manuscript and dated it to the early fourth century. Colin Roberts considered this date far too late, dated it to around 200 and published the manuscript. This view was supported by three other leading papyrologists: Harold Bell, TC Skeat, and EG Turner, and has since become the generally accepted dating for ⁶⁴ . In contrast to this, the literary scholar, historian and papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede dated 1994 ⁶⁴ to the first century between 40 and 70. In 1995, von Thiede published an article in the journal for papyrology and epigraphy. ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

literature

CH Roberts: An early papyrus of the first gospel , in: Harvard Theological Review 46 (1953), pp. 233-237.
Ramón Roca-Puig: P. Barc. Inv. No. 1 , in: Studi in onore di Aristide Calderini e Roberto Paribeni II, Milan-Varese 1957, pp. 87-96.
SD Charlesworth: TC Skeat, P64 + 67 and P4, and the Problem of Fiber Orientation in Codicological Reconstruction , in: New Testament Studies 53 (2007), pp. 582-604. doi : 10.1017 / S002868850700029X
TC Skeat: The Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? , in: New Testament Studies 43, pp. 1-34. doi : 10.1017 / S0028688500022475
Carsten Peter Thiede : Papyrus Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory – Aland P ⁶⁴ ). A reappraisal. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105 (1995), pp. 13-20, online (PDF; 484 kB). Retrieved December 13, 2006.
Klaus Wachtel : P64 / 67: Fragments of the Gospel of Matthew from the 1st century? , in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107 (1995), pp. 73-80 ( online ).
Harald Vocke: Papyrus Magdalen 17 - further arguments against the early dating of the alleged Jesus papyrus , in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996), pp. 153–157 ( online ).

photos

Web links

Peter M. Head, "The date of the Magdalen Papyrus of Matthew: A Response to CP Thiede" : published in Tyndale Bulletin 46 (1995) p. 251-285; the article suggests that he has both over-estimated the amount of stylistic similarity between P64 and several Palestinian Greek manuscripts and under-estimated the strength of the scholarly consensus of a date around AD 200.
University of Münster, New Testament Transcripts Prototype , select P64 / 67 in the 'manuscript descriptions' box
TC Skeat, The Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? , in: TC Skeat and JK Elliott, The collected biblical writings of TC Skeat , Brill 2004, pp. 158-179.

Individual evidence

↑ Kurt and Barbara Aland , The Text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Biblical Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
↑ Colin Roberts, An Early Papyrus pp. 233-237

[Aland-1] Kurt and Barbara Aland , The Text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Biblical Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6

[2] Colin Roberts, An Early Papyrus pp. 233-237