Friday, September 15, 2006

Biblical extracts

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I've had a couple of communications with NT scholars recently in relation to the Bodleian Coptic ms of John 20:19-31 and they have expressed interest in knowing more about manuscripts that contain extracts of scripture, e.g. P12. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a ready resource that lists these or a basic introduction to the subject. I'm aware that Tommy has worked on amulets, but these are only a subsection of extracts as a whole.

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  1. Pete:

    one recent essay may be of interest:

    Stanely E. Porter, "Textual Critisicm in the Light of Diverse Textual Evidence for the Greek New Testament: An Expanded Proposal," in T. J. Kraus & T. Nicklas (eds.), New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World (TENT 2; Leiden: Brill, 2006), 305-37.

    In the same volume, T. J. Kraus discusses manuscripts with the Lord's Prayer, (some of which are amulets), and I discuss P78, as you remarked. Unfortunately, I did not get to proofread that contribution (the editors did it in my place), which I very much regret, since several errors entered the text and the transcription of the MS (via Brill's reformatting). A "revised and corrected" version will appear in my forthcoming dissertation.

    There are many good references within these three chapters of the volume, to other works which will be of interest.

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  2. There is a list of 'Excerpts from Biblical Books' in the Macquarie Papyri form the Rise of Christianity in Egypt Draft Conspectus (http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/Conspectus.pdf) [go to section XX]

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