Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655 (P. Oxy. 655) is a
Grenfell and Hunt between 1897 and 1904 in the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the early 3rd century.[1][2] It is one of only three Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas.[2]
Description
The manuscript was written on papyrus in
cursive hand.[4]
The fragment contains logia (sayings) 36–39 of the Gospel of Thomas on the recto side of the leaf.[2]
Grenfell and Hunt also discovered another two fragments of this apocryphal Gospel: P. Oxy. 1 and P. Oxy. 654.[5]
According to Grenfell and Hunt, who identified this fragment as being from an uncanonical Gospel, it is very close to the
Adolf Harnack), or a collections of Jesus's Sayings used in the Second Epistle of Clement. Grenfell and Hunt observed some similarities to the P. Oxy. 654.[6] The only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas was found in 1945 when a Coptic version was discovered at Nag Hammadi with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts.[7]
In 1904, P. Oxy. 655 was given to
Egypt Exploration Fund. The fragment is housed at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (SM Inv. 4367) in Cambridge.[3][8]
See also
References
- ^ a b Larry Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts (Wm. Eerdmans 2006), p. 228.
- ^ ISBN 3-438-05128-1.
- ^ a b Larry Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts (Wm. Eerdmans 2006), p. 241.
- ^ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1904). Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. p. 23.
- ZNW, Volume 101, Issue 2, p. 267.
- ^ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1904). Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. p. 27.
- ISBN 3-438-05128-1.
- ^ Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655
Further reading
- Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1904). Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. pp. 22–28.