From: Thomas J. Kraus (tj.kraus@gmx.de)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 07:22:40 EDT
<x-charset ISO-8859-1>On 9 Apr 00, at 1:55, Chris A Vlachos wrote:
> Have any of the UBS editors commented on the "Magdalene papyrus"?
> Do they accept it as a pre-AD70 document?
The dating by the sensationalist Thiede (see ZPE 105 (1995) 13-
20) has been devastatingly rebutted by K. Wachtel, in: ZPE 107
(1995) 73-80 (it could not have been done any better). There is no
serious scholar who still takes such a proofless dating into account
because of lack of papyrological and palaeographical evidence. If
you are interested in the way Thiede is doing his "research" peruse
H. Vocke, Papyrus Magdalen 17 - weitere Argumente gegen die
Fruehdatierung des angeblichen Jesus-Papyrus, in: ZPE 113
(1996) 153-157.
Nevertheless, additionally there is Sigrid Peterson¥s reply
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~petersig/thiede.txt.final.reply), which
definitely is worth reading.
Of course, this papyrus is of major importance. With such a
witness of an ancient period of history today¥s world has received a
fingerprint of real (ie ordinary) people living then.
Thomas J. Kraus
tj.kraus@gmx.de
http://people.freenet.de/tjkraus/Homepage.htm
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