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Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 5101
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5101, designated by 2227 (in the Alfred Ralhfs numbering of Greek Septuagint manuscripts) or P.Oxy.LXXVII 5101LDAB 140272 is a manuscript of the Psalms in the Greek Septuagint version, written on papyrus in roll form. It has survived in only a few fragments. Using the study of comparative writings styles (palaeography), it has been dated to between 50 and 150 CE. It uses the Tetragrammaton (name of God in the Hebrew Bible) written in palaeo-Hebrew script instead substituting the Greek title , and is currently the earliest extant copy of the Septuagint Psalms. Description The manuscript was originally a papyrus roll, of which fragments from six columns have survived. The fragments contain Psalms 26:9-14; 44:4-8; 47:13-15; 48:6-21; 49:2-16; 63:6-64:5 according to the numbering of the Septuagint (the Hebrew Bible Psalms number them slightly differently). According to biblical scholar Larry Hurtado, “ is is probably the earliest extant copy of the Septuagint Ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
POxy LXXVII 5101
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, modern ''el-Bahnasa''). The manuscripts date from the time of the Ptolemaic (3rd century BC) and Roman periods of Egyptian history (from 32 BC to the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 AD). Only an estimated 10% are literary in nature. Most of the papyri found seem to consist mainly of public and private documents: codes, edicts, registers, official correspondence, census-returns, tax-assessments, petitions, court-records, sales, leases, wills, bills, accounts, inventories, horoscopes, and private letters. Although most of the papyri were written in Greek, some texts written in Egyptian (Egyptian hieroglyphics, Hieratic, Demotic, mostly Coptic), Latin and Arabic were also found. Texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Pah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
