[B-Greek] Gospel of Mary fragment

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 2 10:35:56 EST 2008


I must have missed your query regarding this papyrus when you submitted it previously.  I just took a look at it and was rather taken back by it.  My initial reaction was to attempt to read it from right to left as though it were Hebrew.  It is in a script which I am quite unaccustomed to reading.  It appears to be a more cursive script with many ligatures.  Here and there I discerm a psi, delta or a pi, but this is going to take some time.  
 
george
gfsomsel
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Susan Jeffers <susan at read-the-bible.org>
To: Thomas J. Kraus <t.j.kraus at web.de>
Cc: B-Greek <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 8:52:07 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Gospel of Mary fragment

Thank you -- I'll see if I can get any of these through interlibrary 
loan -- I don't have easy access to an academic library.

I was hoping someone could just take a quick look and write back "the 
middle of the third line seems to say....." or something like that....

Susan Jeffers

Thomas J. Kraus suggested several books in response to my previous post 
asking for help deciphering any of the Greek text of the papyrus 
fragment online at:

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/poxy/papyri/vol50/150dpi/3525.jpg



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