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Papyrus 2053
- Record Id:
- 040-002105422
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00012a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108237.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2053
- Title:
- The Exodus-Revelation Papyrus (P.Lond.Lit. 203, P.Oxy. VIII 1075, TM 62314, LDAB 3477; P.Lond.Lit. 219, P.Oxy. VIII 1079, TM 61636, LDAB 2786, Gregory-Aland P18, van Haelst 559 )
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Exodus 11: 26-32 with colophon.
Verso: Revelation 1: 4-7.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105422 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2053 : The Exodus-Revelation Papyrus (P.Lond.Lit. 203, P.Oxy. VIII 1075, TM 62314, LDAB 3477; P.Lond.Lit. 219, P.Oxy. VIII 1079, TM 61636,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0831]/040-002105422
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a roll or codex; writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso; one column is preserved on both sides, the recto containing 23 lines, the verso 17 lines. Framed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108237.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 151 x 98 mm, framed in a glass case measuring 205 x 14-.
Script: Recto: Sloping uncial hand (Severe Style) with one abbreviation for Kyrios. Verso: Heavy upright semi-cursive with occasional use of contracted nomina sacra.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, 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. 203
P.Lond.Lit. 219
P.Oxy. VIII 1075
P.Oxy. VIII 1079 - Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2053
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum 1925), p. 478.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII(London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1911), pp. 5 and 13.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 166, no. 203, and p. 184, no. 219.
J. Schmid, Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Apokalypse-Textes, Teil 1. Der Apokalypse-Kommentar des Andreas von Kaisareia, Band I: Text, Band II: Einleitung; Teil 2: Die alten Stämme (Münchener theologische Studien 4) (Munich: K. Zink 1955-6) II.171.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Sorbonne 1976), p. 43, no. 44, and p. 557, no. 559.
K. and B. Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1995), p. 97.
P. W. Comfort, D. P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated 2001), pp. 103–105.
E. J. Epp, 'The Oxyrhynchus New Testament Papyri: ‘Not without honor except in their hometown’?', Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004), pp. 5-55 (pp. 18-19).
M. P. Brown, (ed.), In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 2006), pp. 258-259.
S. McKendrick, K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scholars (London: The British Library 2007), p. 19.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library 2007), p. 69.
P. Orsini, W. Clarysse, 'Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates: A Critique of Theological Palaeography,' Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88.4 (2012), pp. 443–474 (p. 469, with bibliography and assessment of the date).
B. Nongbri, 'Losing a Curious Christian Scroll but Gaining a Curious Christian Codex: An Oxyrhynchus Papyrus of Exodus and Revelation,' Novum Testamentum 55 (2013), pp. 77–88.
P. van Minnen, ‘From Possidipus to Palladas: What Have Literary Papyri Done for Us?’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 42 (2013), pp. 243-261 (p. 245).
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment (eds.), Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press 2015), p. 91.
G. Bazzana, ‘“Write in a Book What You See and Send It to the Seven Assemblies”: Ancient Reading Practices and the Earliest Papyri of Revelation’, T. J. Kraus, M. Sommer (eds.), Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017), pp. 11-31 (p. 17).
J. Cate, ‘The Curious Case of ß43’, in T. J. Kraus, M. Sommer (eds.), Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017), pp. 33-49 (p. 42, n. 36).
S. D. Charlesworth, ‘A Reused Roll or a “Curious Christian Codex”? Reconsidering British Library Papyrus 2053(P.Oxy. 8.1075 + P.Oxy. 8.1079)’, Buried History: Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology 53 (2017), pp. 35-44 (pp. 35-36).
T. J. Kraus, ‘“When Symbols and Figures Become Physical Objects”: Critical Notes about Some of the “Consistently Cited Witnesses” to the Text of Revelation’, in T. J. Kraus, M. Sommer (eds.), Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017), pp. 51-69 (p. 59).
T. Nicklas, ‘Christliche Apokalypsen in Ägypten vor Konstantin: Kanon, Autorität, kontextuelle Funktion’, in T. J. Kraus, M. Sommer (eds.), Book of Seven Seals: The Peculiarity of Revelation, its Manuscripts, Attestation, and Transmission (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017), pp. 96-117 (p. 101).
P. Malik, ‘P.Oxy. VIII.1079 (ß18): Closing on a ‘Curious’ Codex?’, New Testament Studies 65 (2019), pp. 94-102.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
Sacred, British Library, April 2007 - October 2007 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)