Corpus-Paul

["Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>]

At 09:44 PM 5/17/99 -0300, Frank W. Hughes wrote:
>I don't recall any MS. of the Pauline letters (and nothing very substantial 
>for any of the NT) that should be dated before 200 C.E.  See the 
>Nestle-Aland 27th edition, pp. 684-688.  To go back into even the middle of 
>the second century you have to deal with patristic quotations which are 
>generally a can of worms to deal with.

Having just received my copy of Comfort & Barrett's THE COMPLETE TEXT OF
THE EARLIEST NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books,
1999), I can give you this list, according to the authors, of second
century MSS that preserve at least some of the text of the Corpus Paulinum:

p32, Tit 1:11-15 2:3-8, 2d half of 2d cen.
p46, most of Rom - 1 Thess + Hebrews, early to mid 2d cen.
p87, Philem 13-15 24-25, early to mid 2d cen.

These datings differ from those of NA27, which lists ca. 200 for p32,
ca. 200 for p46, and III for p87.

Stephen Carlson
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