GREEK BIBLE - EXODUS
| MS | 187 |
| MS Short Title |
GREEK BIBLE - EXODUS |
| Text | BIBLE: EXODUS 4:17 - 6:12; 7:12 - 21 |
| Description | MS in Greek on papyrus, Egypt, mid 4th c., 5 ff., 26x16 cm, originally 28x16 cm, single column, (22x12 cm), 32 lines in an expert Greek uncial. |
| Context |
Another f. from the same parent MS, containing Exodus 6:12-7:11, was in the Antonovich Collection, Paris., now is in Yale Library. This leaf fills the gap between the Schøyen ff. Further fragmentary leaves of Exodus were found around 1960s at Muhafazat at Minya together with Coptic Letters of Paul, Hebrews, Gnostic First Apocalypse of James, Letter of Peter to Phillip, and Gospel of Judas, as well as a Greek metrological text.
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| Provenance | 1. Found around 1960s at Muhafazat at Miniya by bedouins; 2. Hannah, Beni Mazar, Egypt (1970s), Geneva (1970s-1983) and New York (1990); 3. François Antonovich, Paris, (6 Exodus leaves only, 1981-1988); 2. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio, present 5 leaves, acquired September 1988. |
| Commentary |
From a very early Exodus papyrus codex that originally contained 4 quires of 11 bifolia each, in all 88 ff. A doubled sewing chord with remains of brown leather reinforcement is preserved in the bifolium. There are relatively few papyri of Exodus in Greek, and the present MS is the most substantial one. The texts preserved here are not otherwise extant on papyrus. Together with Codex Vaticanus the oldest Septuagint Exodus. The present shows a very suggestive state of the Greek Septuagint text before the critical work of Origenes, i.e. a preorigenian but already partly hebraised text. Rahlfs no. 866. |
| Published | To be published by Olivier Munnich and Rosario Pintaudi in the series “Manuscripts in The Schøyen Collection”, Greek Papyri, vol. 3. |
| Exhibited | XVI Congress of the International Organization for the study of the Old Testament. Faculty of Law Library, University of Oslo, 29 July - 7 August 1998. |
| Place of origin | Egypt |
| Dates | mid 4c AD |