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Papyrus 2047
- Record Id:
- 040-002105416
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000124
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467066.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2047
- Title:
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Genesis 2, 3 (P.Oxy. VII 1007, P.Lond.Lit. 199, TM 61956, LDAB 3113)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a leaf of a parchment codex, presumably containing the whole book of the Genesis. Whether it has a Jewish (cf. Tetragrammaton: double yod with horizontal stroke through it) or Christian origin has been debated.
Recto
Column 1: Genesis 2:7-9.
Column 2: Genesis 2:16-18.
Verso
Column 1: Genesis 2:23-3:1.
Column 2: Genesis 3:6-7.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105416 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2047 : Genesis 2, 3 (P.Oxy. VII 1007, P.Lond.Lit. 199, TM 61956, LDAB 3113) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1156]/040-002105416
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a leaf from a parchment codex, with writing on both sides. Each side bears portions of two columns; each column would have had 25 lines, for a height of 165 mm. The intecolumn survives. The fragment is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467066.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0250
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 50 x 162 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 100 x 210 mm.
Script: Regular and somewhat square uncial hand with some ligatures, exhibiting ornamentation and serifs; hand of a practised scribe, writing with some degree of haste; nomina sacra contracted.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 199
P.Oxy. VII 1007 - Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), p. 477.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 1-3, no. 1007, with pl I.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1927), p. 164, no. 199.
B. M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography (New York: Oxford University Press 1931), p. 34.
K. Treu, ‘Die Bedeutung des Griechischen für die Jüden im Römischen Reich’, Kairos 15 (1973), pp. 123-144.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 5.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), pp. 28, 34, 164.
C. H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt (London-New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 1979), p. 31.
R. J. V. Hiebert, C. E. Cox, P. J. Gentry, The Old Greek Psalter: Studies in Honour of Albert Pietersma (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 2001), pp. 129, 140, 144, 146.
A. Rahlfs, D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2004), pp. 293-294, no. 907.
A. Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2016), p. 120, no. 3.
L. W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2006), pp. 123, 210 and passim.
AM. Luijendijk, ‘Sacred Scriptures as Trash: Biblical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus’, Vigiliae Christianae 64 (2010), pp. 217-254 (p. 242, n. 87).
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), p. 50, n. 109; p. 326.
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press 2015), p. 14.
Z. J. Cole, Numerals in Early Greek New Testament Manuscripts. Text-Critical, Scribal, and Theological Studies (Leiden: Brill 2017), p. 164, no. 2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)