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A New Fragment of the Protevangelium Jacobi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2011

Thomas Wayment  and
Alexander Ladenheim
Thomas Wayment
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University
Alexander Ladenheim
Affiliation:
Clovis, California
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This single, mutilated leaf from a papyrus codex consists of twelve lines of text written in a nearly upright biblical uncial. The practiced scribal hand has consistent spacing of letters and serifs adorning τ, χ, κ, and η. A dieresis is written above iota in line 4, and an apostrophe marks the end of Iωακειμ (line 7), which may indicate that the name lacked an ordinary Greek declension. Joseph van Haelst originally dated the hand to the beginning of the fourth century, and its similarities to P.Oxy. 1250 and 4804 confirm a fourth century dating.1

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , 15 July 2011 , pp. 381 - 384
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 2010

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References

1 Haelst, Joseph van, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976) 601Google Scholar; Oscar Cullmann, “Infancy Gospels,” in Gospels and Related Writings (ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher; trans. R. McL. Wilson; vol. 1 of New Testament Apocrypha; 2 vols.; rev. ed.; Louisville, Ky.: WestminsterJohn Knox, 1991) 414–20; Hock, Ronald F., The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas (The Scholars Bible 2; Santa Rosa, Calif.: Polebridge, 1995) 8Google Scholar.

2 Van Haelst, Catalogue, 601

3 For editions of the Protevangelium Jacobi, see Boyd L. Daniels, The Greek Manuscript Tradition of the Protevangelium Jacobi (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1956); Strycker, Émile de, La forme la plus ancienne du Protévangile de Jacques. Recherches sur le Papyrus Bodmer 5 avec une édition critique du texte grec et une traduction annotée (Subsidia hagiographica 33; Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1961Google Scholar); Lewis, Agnes S., Apocrypha Syriaca: The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae (Studia Sinaitica 11; London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1902Google Scholar); Tischendorf, Constantin von, Evangelia Apocrypha (Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1876) 9–10Google Scholar; Otero, Aurelio de Santos, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der altslavische Apokryphen (Patristische Texte und Studien 20, 23; 2 vols.; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1978–1981CrossRefGoogle Scholar); Martin McNamara, Jean-Daniel Kaestli, and Rita Beyers, eds., Evangelia Infantiae (vol. 1 of Apocrypha Hiberniae; Corpus Christianorum: Series Apocryphorum 13; Turnhout: Brepols, 2001) 41–52.

4 de Strycker, Émile, “Die griechischen Handschriften des Protevangelium Iacobi,” in Griechische Kodikologie und Textuberlieferung ed. Harlfinger, Dieter; Darmstadt: Buchgesellschaft, 1980) 597–607Google Scholar; for the origin of P.Bodmer 5, see Wasserman, Tommy, “Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex,” NTS 51 (2005) 137–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Similarly, Strycker, La forme la plus ancienne du Protevangile de Jacques, 83.

6 Ibid., 83 n. 15.