New early Wien papyrus - Hebrews

Thomas J. Kraus tj.kraus at gmx.de
Tue Jan 11 14:55:09 EST 2000


On 10 Jan 00, at 23:38, Elmer Smalling wrote:

> In case you do not know:
> 
> Amphilochios Papathomas has found fragments of the 
> Epistle to the Hebrews in the Oesterreichische 
> Nationalbibliotek Papyrussammlung in Wien. He dates them 
> <100 A.D. [ P. Vindob. G42417]. This is an exciting find. 
> Consider the Magdalen Barcelona, and Paris fragments!
> This was announced in Trouw (a major Dutch newspaper) 
> late last week.
> 
> http://www.onb.ac.at
> http://www.sbg.ac.at/nbw/people/papathom.htm
> 
> 
> Regards,

Unfortunately, I have to correct the above assertion given by Elmer 
Smalling. Dr. Amphilochios Papathomas has identified P.Vindob.G 
42417 as part of the Epistle to the Hebrews. But, as he pointed out 
on the papy-list (papy at igl.ku.dk) on January 8, 2000, the new 
papyrus is most certainly from the sixth or even seventh century 
(according to the forms of e and m especially). His article providing 
the essential facts of his identification will be published in the first 
edition of the new "Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and 
Judaism" 
(http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/artshum/depts/trs/catr/journal.htm) 
and cover pp. 18-22 [in print].
He decided to publish this previous short edition of the most 
decisive facts about P.Vindob.G 42417 because of many incorrect 
and sensationalist information provided by some newspapers such 
as Trouw.

Sorry about that, somehow. But this does not make the discovery 
less important and fascinating.

Best wishes,

Thomas J. Kraus

tj.kraus at gmx.de
http://www.freenet.de/tjkraus/Homepage.htm



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