Papyrus 7Q5 is one of the scrolls of Qumran manuscripts . It is a small fragment of papyrus in ancient Greek, found in the 7th cave of Qumran . It has been argued that based on the papyrus writing style, a handwritten monument can be dated between 50 BC. e. and 50 g. e.
The Spanish papyrologist José O'Callaghan in 1972, in his work ¿Papiros neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrân? ( New Testament Papyrus in the 7 Cumran Cave?), Hypothesized that this papyrus is the oldest list of the Gospel of Mark . In 1986, German scholar Karsten Peter Tied published Die älteste Evangelien-Handschrift ?: Das Markus-Fragment von Qumran und die Anfänge der schriftlichen Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments, in which he developed the idea of being able to identify papyrus as the oldest version of the Gospel of Mark.
Moreover, the hypothesis that the papyrus with the number 7Q5 contains an excerpt 6: 52-53 of the Gospel of Mark, is considered by most modern scholars to be untenable and "almost universally rejected." [1] [2] [3] [4]
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- ↑ Millard, AR Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus . - NYU Press, 2000. - P. 56. - "CP Thiede drew on papyrology, statistics and forensic microscopy to try to prove O'Callaghan's case, yet without convincing the majority of other leading specialists." - ISBN 0-8147-5637-9 .
- ↑ McCready, Wayne O. Whose Historical Jesus? . - Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997 .-- P. 193. - ISBN 0-88920-295-8 . . "On the whole, O'Callaghan's thesis has met with scholarly skepticism since the fragments are extremely small, almost illegible, and his strongest case does not agree with known versions of Mark."
- ↑ "... Qumran ms. 7Q5 ... is captioned as if it contains a fragment of Mark: it was of course O'Callaghan who made that controversial - and now virtually universally rejected - identication of this Dead Sea text as a piece of the New Testament ... ”Elliot (2004) , JK, Book Notes , Novum Testamentum, Volume 45, Number 2, 2003, pp. 203.
- ↑ Gundry (1999), p.698. It should be noted that so acclaimed a text critic as the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini , SJ, Archbishop of Milan and part of the five member team which edited the definitive modern edition of the Greek New Testament for the United Bible Societies agreed with O ' Callaghan's identification and assertions.