Papyrus Oxyrhynchus L 3522
Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522 (also P.Oxy.L 3522; Rahlfs 857) is a small fragment of a papyrus in roll form that contained a text from the Greek Old Testament ( Septuagint ). According to the paleographic analysis, the manuscript probably dates from the 1st century BC. BC and is one of the oldest known testimonies of the Septuagint text. The fragment contains parts of two verses from the book of Job ( Hi 42: 11-12 EU ).
As one of the manuscripts discovered in Oxyrhynchos , it has been cataloged with the number 3522. In the manuscript index of the Septuagint prepared by Alfred Rahlfs , the fragment is cataloged with the number 857, in the Leuven Database of Ancient Books it has the number 3079. Today the papyrus belongs to the Sackler Library in the library of the University of Oxford .
A special feature is the rendering of God's name YHWH with the Hebrew letters ????.
Individual evidence
- ^ Larry W. Hurtado : The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins . Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI 2006, ISBN 0-8028-2895-7 , p. 213.