[B-Greek] Gospel of Mary fragment

Thomas J. Kraus t.j.kraus at web.de
Wed Jan 2 04:25:17 EST 2008


On 01.01.2008 15:29 Uhr "Susan Jeffers" at <susan at read-the-bible.org> wrote:

> I've recently become interested in the so-called "Gospel of Mary" most
> of whose extant text is in Coptic.  There are a couple of Greek
> fragments extant as well, one of whose image is online at
> http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/poxy/papyri/vol50/150dpi/3525.jpg
> (P.Oxy. L 3525, Oxford Oxyrhynchus Online site).
> 
> Can anyone help me decipher the text as it's written? I can pick out a
> few deltas and gammas (I think) but that's about it.  I thought there
> might be a transcription on the Oxford site, but I can't find one.  I
> hope reading ancient Greek handwriting isn't out-of-scope for this list
> -- if there's somewhere else I should take this question I will.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Susan Jeffers

Dear Susan,

You may be interested in the following recent publication:

Christopher Tuckett (ed.), The Gospel of Mary (Oxford Early Christian Gospel
Texts; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). - Transcriptions,
translations, discussions of the relevant manuscript witnesses.

Maybe it is easier for you to lay hands on:

Dieter Luehrmann, Die griechischen Fragmente des Mariaevangeliums POxy 3525
and PRyl 463, in: Novum Testamentum 30 (1988) 321-38.
Idem, Fragmente apocryph gewordener Evangelien in griechsicher und
lateinischer Sprache (MTS 50; Marburg: Elwert, 2000), 62-71 (with P.Oxy. L
3525 on pages 66-67).
Although both in German and the latter hard to get, these might do, too.

Maybe a copy of the relevant pages would be what you want and need.

Best,

Thomas J. Kraus




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