Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656

A fragment of Genesis.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656 (abbreviated as P.Oxy.IV 656) – is a Greek fragment of a Septuagint manuscript written on papyrus in codex form. This is a manuscript discovered at Oxyrhynchus, and it has been catalogued with number 656. Palaeographycally it is dated to late second century or early third century.

The fragments contains Genesis (14:21-23, 15:5-9, 19:32-20:11, 24:28-47, 27:32,33,40,41), written in Koine Greek. On places where occurs the tetragrammaton is the word kyrios written, a nomina sacra, the characters are different than other. In manuscripts from dead sea scrolls implying either use of a different letters, different pen or different scribe, or both for special treatment to divine name in the text, but in this manuscript was not written. The mss. Papyrus Rylands 458 has been used in discussions about the tetragrammaton, although there are blank spaces in the places where some scholars including C. H. Roberts believe that it contained letters.[1] According to Paul E. Kahle, the tetragrammaton must have been written in the manuscript where these breaks or blank spaces appear.[2] The manuscript was written on papyrus, in codex form. The surviving fragments are four pieces of 24 cm by 20 cm.

History

The fragment was published in 1904 by Bernard P. Grenfell and Artur S. Hunt in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol IV. The number 905 was given to the fragments list of septuagint manuscripts according classification system of Alfred Rahlfs.

References

  1. ↑ The Septuagint and Modern Study, Sidney Jellicoe, 1968, pp. 271–2.
  2. ↑ Paul E. Kahle, The Cairo Geniza (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,, 1959) p. 222.
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