Did anyone notice this passing comment about P52 in Bart Erhman’s latest post about the alleged early fragment of Mark?
‘So it would be a significant piece, and, arguably, the first to be dated this early (P52 is usually dated to 125 CE, plus or minus 25 years – although recent reexaminations suggest that this date may be too early, possibly by a 80-100 years!). And about that, every textual scholar on the planet, of whatever persuasion, would be thrilled.’
https://bloggingtheology.net/2015/01/29/why-id-be-thrilled-if-a-first-century-manuscript-appeared/
The Rylands Papyrus 52 at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England
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If that’s the oldest “NT”, it’s not much really
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Indeed. By way of contrast we now have manuscripts for virtually all the Quran for the first century AH
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Hardly a fair comparison given that the koran is 600 years younger and existed in a time with much better preservation materials.
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Out of interest, do we know what the extract says?
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Get James White over with a magnifying glass!
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