Thursday, October 29, 2009

English Translation of P46

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Charles Horton emailed to say that an English translation of the Chester Beatty pages of P46 (prepared by David Hutchinson Edgar in 1998) has been placed online. Edgar wrote:
The translation has been prepared in such a way as to highlight instances where the text of P46 diverges from the most recent critical edition of the Greek New Testament. [i.e. NA27]

That, the attention paid to corrections, and the use of the same line layout as the manuscript, could make this quite a useful tool for students and others. I have had only a brief look, but you can find it on this page: click on the link under the photo.
Similar translations for P45 and P47 will appear in due course.

11 comments

  1. The photo is not a photo of P46.

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  2. To be clear: it is not a translation of all of P46, just those pages of it in the Chester Beatty library.

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  3. Yes, right.

    It mentions that there is a translation of the Michigan pages, but I'm not sure where that is.

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  4. The antecedent of "that" in the previous comment is "a translation" (not "Michigan").

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  5. Although I don't mean to imply that I do know where Michigan is.

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  6. Somewhere in America.

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  7. A translation (by me) of the Michigan pages of NT P46 was published by UM Press along with images on a CD in 1998. T.Gagos and K. Head were the editors. The Greek text is also revised from those of Sanders and Kenyon.

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  8. Sorry, the editors were Kathryn Beam and Traianos Gagos, The evolution of the English Bible : from papyri to King James.

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  9. Thanks for that information.

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  10. Thanks for that information.

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  11. This brings to light a little-known variant in Pros Korinqious A, just following HDH KEKRIKA WS PARWN TON OUTWS TOUTO KATERGASAMENON:

    p46 reads
    εν τω ονοματι του κυ ημων ιυ χυ συναχθεντων υμων και του εμου πνευματος συν τη δυναμει του κυ ιυ

    This strikes a rather direct blow at the idea that scribes always lengthened divine titles. p46's KU HMWN IU XU is longer than 01, 02, 03/06*, and two miniscule singular readings--and identical to that in 06c and the bulk of the miniscules that don't follow any of the above five.

    And that's just the first such case in this verse; there's another.

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