Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Early manuscripts of Romans

First there were six, than there were five.

P40 was dated by Aland as coming from the third century. As far as I can tell from the few letters I can see clearly in the pictures (here), this is very optimistic indeed. I am glad that the holding institution agrees and suggests a fifth/sixth century date. I suggest we adjust our lists to reflect this uncertainty: the first couple of decades people still know that Aland's dating is disputed, afterwards we state it as fact that the papyrus comes from the third (the usual shift from opinion to certainty). That still leaves five witnesses of Romans dated to the third century (P27, P46, P113, P118, and 0220).
Posted by Dirk Jongkind kl. 10:43 AM
Tags:

2 Comments:

Louis said...

We you recommend we adjust our "lists" it makes me think that there is a standard software program for textual critics to log informaiton in. How do textual critics typically organize their notes on the manuscripts?

2:39 PM, June 17, 2009
Tommy Wasserman said...

Louis, I typically note them in my copy of the Kurzgefasste Liste. There is also J.K. Elliott's useful bibliography on GNT MSS where I have some notes.

8:13 AM, June 18, 2009

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The membership of this blog is made up of evangelicals involved in academic study of textual criticism. Those with appropriate expertise and theological convictions who wish to be considered for membership should contact Peter Head or Tommy Wasserman. Those applying for membership must indicate that they have read either the OT or the NT in its original language(s), should be actively involved in text-critical research, and should be already contributing to the blog through comments. They should give e-mail details of an academic and a pastoral referee, a summary of their academic and/or ministry involvement, a statement of their doctrinal commitment (which may be by reference to various classic evangelical statements of faith, e.g. 39 Articles, Westminster Confession), and an indication of their area of interest within textual criticism. Non-members who wish to comment are not expected to be evangelical, but they are requested to respect the blog's ethos.