12/12/2023 0 Comments Old manuscripts papruyi![]() ![]() And the papyrologist who worked out its first-century date had to be the world-renowned classicist Dirk Obbink. Wallace’s ties to the Greens made it easy for observers to connect the dots: The Mark papyrus had to be one of the manuscripts the Greens had bought for their museum. It gave handpicked scholars access to the thousands of artifacts the family had collected for their Museum of the Bible, a soaring $500 million showplace that would open a few years later near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The program was funded by the Green family, the evangelical billionaires who own the Hobby Lobby craft-store chain. Though he didn’t mention it onstage, Wallace had recently joined something called the Green Scholars Initiative. Many consider him to be the best papyrologist on the planet.” The fragment, Wallace added, would appear in an academic book the next year. Wallace declined to name the expert who’d dated the papyrus to the first century-“I’ve been sworn to secrecy”-but assured the audience that his “reputation is unimpeachable. Its verses, moreover, closely matched those in modern Bibles-evidence of the New Testament’s reliability and a rebuke to liberal scholars who saw the good book not as God-given but as the messy work of generations of human hands, prone to invention and revision, mischief and mistake. The papyrus would be the only known Christian manuscript from the century in which Jesus is said to have lived. They had debated twice before, but this time Wallace had a secret weapon: At the end of his opening statement, he announced that verses of the Gospel of Mark had just been discovered on a piece of papyrus from the first century.Īs news went in the field of biblical studies, this was a bombshell. On the other was Daniel Wallace, a conservative scholar at Dallas Theological Seminary who believes that careful textual analysis can surface the New Testament’s divinely inspired first draft. On one side was Bart Ehrman, a UNC professor and atheist whose best-selling books argue that the oldest copies of Christian scripture are so inconsistent and incomplete-and so few in number-that the original words are beyond recovery. We hope that with these papyri you will find answers to your textual questions, certainty of the accuracy of your transcriptions, as well as experience some excitement exploring ancient copies of the Bible, some of which are nearly two millenia old.To hear more feature stories, get the Audm iPhone app. For instance, while p46 is often used as an example of the lack of the words "in Ephesus" in the opening of the epistle, you can clearly see written across the top of the page "προς εφεσιους," or "TO THE EPHESIANS." This evidence is something that could be missed if one consulted only a critical aparatus but did not actually look at the papyrus itself. Another interesting feature is the presence of headers on each of the epistles in p46. This may raise eyebrows, but it was not uncommon for a scribe to intentionally miscount his work, as scribes were paid by the line. ![]() Regarding this counting of lines, it is interesting that the numbers noted in p46 are inflated. Some interesting features to notice while looking through these papyri are the scribal habits of marking the end of a work with a line accross the page, or the scribal noting of how many lines were written. Codicies were less expensive to produce, less fragile (you didn't have to worry about crushing them!) and easier to navigate through, as they could be flipped through quickly, page by page, unlike a scroll which had to be rolled back and forth. This was a novel invention that came to replace scrolls. A codex consists of multiple papyri with writing on both sides and then bound together in what we might call a book. Many of these papyri show signs of being part of what is known as a codex, especially Papyrus 46. To the left is a menu of the earliest and oldest copies of the New Testament-the New Testament Papyri. ![]()
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