Old NT MS

Thomas J. Kraus tj.kraus at gmx.de
Thu Sep 23 10:36:58 EDT 1999


On 22 Sep 99, at 21:24, C. E. Core wrote:

> Dear Mitchell,
> 
> I acquired a link to a page that claims to have information on a GK NT Papyri dating
> between 60 and 30 A.D. It is P64 and more information can be found at the following
> link.
> 
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~sepharad/MMM.html

Dear Chris (and all others),
please, be careful with pieces of "information" gathered from pages 
by the popularist C.P. Thiede. His "dating" of P64 - he calls his 
proposal a "rediscovery" - is not backed by any methodologically 
acceptable treatment of a papyrus as far as papyrology and 
paleography are concerned. If you want to read more about the 
rejection of his thesis (P64 as the earliest manuscript of the NT), 
you might be interested in:
K. Wachtel, in: ZPE 107 (1995) 73-80.
H. Vocke, Papyrus Magdalen 17 - weitere Argumente gegen die 
Frühdatierung des angeblichen Jesus-Papyrus, in: ZPE 113 (1996) 
153-157.
S. Peterson´s cricital annotations on ioudaios (Wed, 24 May 1995) 
- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~petersig/thiede.txt.final.repl
The recensions of Thiede´s sensationalist book by
H. Foerster, in: Biblos 46,1 (1997) 230-232.
P. Grelot, in: Revue Biblique 105 (1998) 589-596.

Yours,

Thomas J. Kraus

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