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Papyrus Fouad 266 is a copy of the Pentateuch in the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint. It is a papyrus manuscript in scroll form. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the 1st century BC. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition. Discussion about this manuscript questions whether it is or is not a later recension of the standard Septuagint text.
Of some 117 papyrus fragments of Deueronomy it is the second oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint (Greek version of the Hebrew Bible), which used the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in Aramaic "square" or Ashuri script.[2]
The text of the manuscript runs close to the Old Greek text but it was characterized through correctors towards the Masoretic Text. In Deuteronomy 22:9 it agrees with the Masoretic Text. The manuscript is a witness of an early recension of the Old Greek text towards the Masoretic Text.[4] Albert Pietersma was the first who claims that Fouad contains some pre-hexaplaric corrections towards a Hebrew text (which would have had the Tetragrammaton). Pietersma also states that there is room for the reading ΚΥΡΙΟΣ (The Lord), but the second scribe inserted the Tetragrammaton instead.[5]
It was discovered in 1939 in Fayyum, where there were two Jewish synagogues. The first published text from the manuscript was edited by W.G. Waddell in 1944.[6] It was examined by Françoise Dunand[7] and P. E. Kahle. In 1971 were published all 117 fragments of the manuscript 117.[8]
The manuscript currently is housed at the Societé Royale de Papyrologie (Gr. P. 458), Cairo.[2]
Papyrus Fouad 266 is a copy of the Pentateuch in the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint. It is a papyrus manuscript in scroll form. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the 1st century BC. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition. Discussion about this manuscript questions whether it is or is not a later recension of the standard Septuagint text.
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[edit] Description
The Greek text was written on papyrus in uncial letters. It is designated by number 942, 947, and 948 on the list of Septuagint manuscripts according to the modern numbering of Alfred Rahlfs.[1] The surviving texts are fragments from Book of Deuteronomy, 31:28-32:6.[2] It contains section divisions with numbered paragraphs (5, 26, 27).[3] The prefix Fouad commemorates Fouad I of Egypt.Of some 117 papyrus fragments of Deueronomy it is the second oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint (Greek version of the Hebrew Bible), which used the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in Aramaic "square" or Ashuri script.[2]
The text of the manuscript runs close to the Old Greek text but it was characterized through correctors towards the Masoretic Text. In Deuteronomy 22:9 it agrees with the Masoretic Text. The manuscript is a witness of an early recension of the Old Greek text towards the Masoretic Text.[4] Albert Pietersma was the first who claims that Fouad contains some pre-hexaplaric corrections towards a Hebrew text (which would have had the Tetragrammaton). Pietersma also states that there is room for the reading ΚΥΡΙΟΣ (The Lord), but the second scribe inserted the Tetragrammaton instead.[5]
[edit] History of the codex
Palaeographically the manuscript has been assigned to the 1st or even 2nd century BC. It is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint.[2] The age of the fragment gives to it a special interest.[according to whom?]It was discovered in 1939 in Fayyum, where there were two Jewish synagogues. The first published text from the manuscript was edited by W.G. Waddell in 1944.[6] It was examined by Françoise Dunand[7] and P. E. Kahle. In 1971 were published all 117 fragments of the manuscript 117.[8]
The manuscript currently is housed at the Societé Royale de Papyrologie (Gr. P. 458), Cairo.[2]
[edit] See also
- Papyrus Rylands 458 – the oldest manuscript of Septuagint
- Biblical manuscript
[edit] References
- ^ Alfred Rahlfs: Septuaginta - Vetus testamentum Graecum. vol. 1/1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2004.
- ^ a b c d Würthwein Ernst (1988). Der Text des Alten Testaments, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, p. 192.
- ^ Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts (Wm. Eerdmans 2006), p. 184.
- ^ Armin Lange, Matthias Weigold, József Zsengellér, Emanuel Tov, From Qumran to Aleppo: a discussion with Emanuel Tov about the textual history of Jewish scriptures in honor of his 65th birthday (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), p. 60.
- ^ Sabine Bieberstein, Kornélia Buday, Ursula Rapp, Fouad 266&f=false Building bridges in a multifaceted Europe: religious origins, traditions (Peeters Publishers, 2006), p. 60.
- ^ Waddell, "The Tetragrammaton in the LXX," JTS 45 (1944): 158-61.
- ^ Françoise Dunand: Papyrus Grecs Bibliques (Papyrus F. Inv. 266). Volumina de la Genèse et du Deutéronome. 1966.
- ^ Études de Papyrologie 9, Cairo 1971, pp. 81-150, 227, 228.
[edit] Further reading
- Zaki Aly: Three Rolls of the Early Septuagint. Genesis and Deuteronomy. A Photographic Edition Prepared in Collaboration with the International Photographic Archive of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues. With Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Ludwig Koenen. Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 27. Bonn 1980. ISBN 3-7749-1417-6
- Françoise Dunand: Papyrus Grecs Bibliques (Papyrus F. Inv. 266). Volumina de la Genèse et du Deutéronome. L'Institut Francais d'Archéologie Orientale. Recherches d'archéologie, de philologie, et d'histoire 27 (1966).
- Alfred Rahlfs: Septuaginta - Vetus testamentum Graecum. Bd. 1/1 - Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-525-53447-7
- Natalio Fernández Marcos: The Septuagint in Context. Brill Verlag, Boston 2001. ISBN 90-04-11574-9
- Ernst Würthwein, The text of the Old Testament: an introduction to the Biblia Hebraica, p. 190.
- Armin Lange, Matthias Weigold, József Zsengellér, Emanuel Tov, From Qumran to Aleppo: a discussion with Emanuel Tov about the textual history of Jewish scriptures in honor of his 65th birthday (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), pp. 59-60.
[edit] External links
- Historic Conections
- The Alexandrian Septuagint History, Barry Setterfield (2010)
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