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A forum for people with knowledge of the Bible in its original languages to discuss its manuscripts and textual history from the perspective of historic evangelical theology.
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- Peter M. Head (ed)
- Tommy Wasserman (ed)
- P. J. Williams, and others
One of the manuscripts turned out to be a complete copy of the book of Isaiah. Other texts have been identified too. See here for details.
ReplyDeleteRoger Pearce has a page on the unfolding of the story in the media
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The Polish Centre publishes a newsletter, it details that
"Two of the books are papyrus codices bound in leather (about 140 and 100 cards respectively). The third is a collection of loose parchment documents in different hands, kept between wooden covers. While the latter remains to be identified, the papyrus books were found to be, one the Canons of Pseudo-Basil in Coptic, the other an Encomion on St Pisenthios, a bishop of Coptos until AD 632, also in Coptic. Both codices were dated to the 7th-8th century, and both represent the oldest known versions of the respective texts. Moreover, until now the Canons had been known only in later Arabic translation." http://www.centrumarcheologii.uw.edu.pl/cas/pliki/nwsl13.pdf
The link to my collection of info is
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The mss are:
* A coptic translation of the book of Isaiah; the first copy known. On 50 decorated sheets of parchment. Wooden boards. 9th-10th centuries.
* The code of ps.Basil - a coptic ecclesiastical lawbook of the 7/8th century. On papyrus. Leather covers.
* The life of St. Pistentios - a hagiography of a coptic saint, from the 7/8th century. On papyrus. Leather covers.
Also there are endleaves supporting the wooden binding made of reused parchment; part of the apocryphal "The passion of St. Peter", an unspecified religious text, and some tax bills.
All the best,
Roger Pearse
Thanks to all for this information.
ReplyDeleteExcellent information. Thank you.
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