2011/09/05 by Don Barker · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation
paper · doi:10.1017/s0028688511000129
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The narrow dating of some of the early New Testament papyri and the methodological approach that is used must be brought into question in the light of the acknowledged difficulties with palaeographical dating and especially the use of assigned dated literary papyri. The thesis of this paper is that the way forward in dating New Testament papyri, or for that matter any undated literary papyri, is first to locate the manuscript in its graphic stream and using, on the whole, dated documentary papyri belonging to the same stream, come to an approximate understanding of where in the history of the stream the manuscript lies. The following New Testament Papyri will be so treated: P 52 , P 67 + and P 46 .