a new biblical manuscript has been announced on the textual criticism of the bible group: introducing p126.
I am pleased to announce to you that we have a new New Testament papyrus.
I noted it in the last volume of the PSI a NT. It contents He 13,12-13.19-20, and it has still not been remarked by the NT field.
the text is a fragment of hebrews 13:12-13, 19-20 and is dated to the fourth century.
hebrews 13:12-13, 19-20 reads (nrsv):
Heb. 13:12: Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.
Heb. 13:13: Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.
Heb. 13:19: I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you very soon.
Heb. 13:20: Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
editio princeps: “G. Vitelli,” Papiri Greci e Latini, vol. 15 (Firenze: Le Monnier/Istituto papirologico, 2008) , 171-172.
(with thanx to the etc blog and to jim west for the tip.)
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