‘Recent Discussions of Dating New Testament Papyri: Some Observations’

Here is the bibliography/handout for my presentation at tomorrow's conference: Day Conference inPapyrology and Early Christianity/Biblical Studies (11.12.13)

C.P. Thiede, ‘Papyrus Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland P⁶⁴): A Reappraisal’ ZPE 105 (1995), 13-20. Republished in Tyndale Bulletin 46 (1995), 29-42.

Peter M. Head, ‘The Date of the Magdalen Papyrus of Matthew (P. Magd. Gr. 17 = P⁶⁴): A Response to C. P. Thiede’ Tyndale Bulletin 46 (1995), 251-285.

P.M. Head, ‘Is P4, P64 and P67 the Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? A Response to T.C. Skeat’ New Testament Studies 51 (2005) 450-457

P.M. Head, ‘Graham Stanton and the Four-Gospel Codex: Reconsidering the Manuscript Evidence’ Jesus, Matthew’s Gospel and Early Christianity: Studies in Memory of Graham N. Stanton (eds D.M. Gurtner; J. Willits, & R.A. Burridge, LNTS 435; London: T&T Clark, 2011), 93-101.

P.W. Comfort & D.P. Barrett, The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999).

P.W. Comfort & D.P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts: The complete text of the earliest New Testament manuscripts (2nd edn. corrected and enlarged; Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001).

Brent Nongbri, ‘The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in the Dating of the Fourth Gospel’ Harvard Theological Review 98 (2005), 23-48.

B. Nongbri, ‘Grenfell and Hunt on the Dates of Early Christian Codices: Setting the Record Straight’ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011), 149-162.

K. Jaroš (ed.), Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften: Die handschriftliche Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codex Vaticanus  (Ruhpolding & Mainz: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen; Vienna & Würzburg: Echter, 2006): CD with 5163 pages (pdf).

K. Jaroš, ‘Ein Fragment des Lukasevangeliums aus der Privatsammlung De Hamel in Cambridge: Gk MS 386’ Aegyptus 88 (2008), 19-23.

P.M. Head, ‘A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Luke’s Gospel (de Hamel MS 386; Gregory-Aland 0312)’ in New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World (eds Thomas J. Kraus & Tobias Nicklas; Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 2; Leiden: E.J. Brill; 2006), 105-120.

P.M. Head, ‘Five New Testament Manuscripts: Recently Discovered Fragments in a Private Collection in Cambridge’ Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008), 520-545.

Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt (Princeton: PUP, 2009).

R.S. Bagnall (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: OUP, 2009).

Don Barker, ‘The Dating of New Testament Papyri’ New Testament Studies 57 (2011), 571-582.

D.[C.] Barker, ‘Codex, Roll, and Libraries in Oxyrhynchus’ Tyndale Bulletin 57 (2006), 131-148.

Pasquale Orsini & Willy Clarysse, ‘Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates:  A Critique of Theological Palaeography’ Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88 (2012), 443-74.