Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 (also known as LXX^{P.Oxy.VII.1007}; P.Oxy. VII 1007; P.Lond.Lit. 199; TM 61956; LDAB 3113) is a fragment of a Septuagint manuscript (LXX) written in two columns on a parchment

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. The manuscript was discovered in

Oxyrhynchus Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo ...

, modern

El-Bahnasa Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo ...

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. The manuscript has been palaeographically dated to the 3rd century CE.

Description

The manuscript contains sections of the

Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning") ...

(2:7-9, 2:16-19 recto; 2:23-3:1, 3:6-8 verso) written in 33 lines per column. This manuscript contains the Name of God "abbreviated by doubling the initial yod, written with in the shape of a z with a horizontal line through the middle, and carried unbroken through both characters zz." The fragment is difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible recto side (in Gen 2:18) it contains the

nomen sacrum In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: ''nomen sacrum'' from Latin ''sacred name'') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists ...

ΘΣ (characteristic of Christian manuscripts) and the

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written in Hebrew with a double

Yodh Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Yōd /𐤉, Hebrew Yōd , Aramaic Yod , Syriac Yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic . Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many lan ...

(characteristic of Jewish manuscripts). Alan Mugridge states regarding LXX^{P.Oxy.VII.1007} and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656:

History

The manuscript was published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, part VII, edited and translated by Arthur S. Hunt, London, 1910, pages 1 and 2. It was catalogued with the number 907 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as classified by Alfred Rahlfs, and also signed as Van Haelst 5. It is given the identification 3113 on the Leuven Database of Ancient Books.Leuven Database of Ancient Books
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Current location

The manuscript is located in the department of manuscripts in the

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(Inv. 2047).

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Description of Manuscript
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Images of P. Oxyrhynchus 1007
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 7 online at Archive.org
3rd-century biblical manuscripts 1007 Book of Genesis Septuagint manuscripts {{OxyrhynchusGR-stub