"Magdalene Papyrus"?

Thomas J. Kraus tj.kraus at gmx.de
Fri Apr 14 07:22:40 EDT 2000


On 9 Apr 00, at 1:55, Chris A Vlachos wrote:

> Have any of  the UBS editors commented on the "Magdalene papyrus"?    
>   Do they accept it as a pre-AD70 document? 

The dating by the sensationalist Thiede (see ZPE 105 (1995) 13-
20) has been devastatingly rebutted by K. Wachtel, in: ZPE 107 
(1995) 73-80 (it could not have been done any better). There is no 
serious scholar who still takes such a proofless dating into account 
because of lack of papyrological and palaeographical evidence. If 
you are interested in the way Thiede is doing his "research" peruse 
H. Vocke, Papyrus Magdalen 17 - weitere Argumente gegen die 
Fruehdatierung des angeblichen Jesus-Papyrus, in: ZPE 113 
(1996) 153-157.
Nevertheless, additionally there is Sigrid Peterson´s reply 
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~petersig/thiede.txt.final.reply), which 
definitely is worth reading.
Of course, this papyrus is of major importance. With such a 
witness of an ancient period of history today´s world has received a 
fingerprint of real (ie ordinary) people living then. 

Thomas J. Kraus

tj.kraus at gmx.de
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