Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 ( LXX P.Oxy.VII.1007 ) is a fragment of a Septuagint manuscript (LXX). The manuscript was discovered in Oxyrhynchus , now El-Bahnasa, Egypt .

The manuscript was paleographically dated to the 3rd century AD. It is currently in the manuscript department of the British Library, London (inv. 2047).

The manuscript contains sections from the Book of Genesis (2.7–9.16–19 recto; 2.23–3.1.6–8 verso) in which the name of God is abbreviated by doubling the initial iodine, written with in the form of a z with a horizontal line through the middle and unbroken by both characters ( zz ). The fragment is difficult to identify as Christian or Jewish.

The manuscript was published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part VII, edited and translated by Arthur S. Hunt , London, 1910, pages 1 and 2.

It was cataloged with the number 907 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as classified by Alfred Rahlfs and also signed as Van Haelst. It has the signature 3113 in the Leuven database for antique books.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruce M. Metzger: Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography . Oxford University Press, 1981, ISBN 9780195365320
  2. ^ Robert James Victor Hiebert, Claude E. Cox, Peter John Gentry: The Old Greek Psalter: Studies in Honor of Albert Pietersma . Sheffield Acad. Press, Sheffield 2001, ISBN 1-84127-209-4 , p. 129.

literature

  • Grenfell, Bernard P .; Hunt, Arthur S: The Oxyrhynchus papyri . tape VII . Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1910 (English, archive.org ).
  • Trobisch, David: The final editing of the New Testament: an investigation into the origin of the Christian Bible (=  Novum Testamentum et orbis antiquus . Volume 31 ). Friborg: University Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996, ISBN 3-7278-1075-0 .

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