Christian Texts and History • Re: nothing is confirmed by 2inch scraps or fragments

Bryennius said he went back to the manuscript and found the Didache, which he had missed on pass one, this was about 10 years later. Definitely a quirky account.

"And, although the MS was discovered in 1873, the findings of the Didache were not made public until 1883."
Shawn Wilhite
https://www.shawnjwilhite.com/blog/2017 ... he-didache
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Especially important are two Greek fragments, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1782, dated to the "late fourth century" and published by Greenfell and Hunt in 1922 (12-15). These tiny scraps, about two inches by two inches apiece, contain verses 1:3c-4a and 2:7-3:2. Despite small differences, the wording on those scraps is very close to Byrrenios's text. That is very important confirmation for the basic accuracy of Codex Hierosolymitanus 54, given the gulf of centuries between it and the earlier fragments
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html

2 inch fragments can only be scraps of evidence. and scraps are not very important. It's not the difference Hoole points out; it's the additions that the Bryennios manuscript has, that just happen to be from the non-NT parts of Sinaiticus (Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd Of Hermas). Coming shortly after S and H were "discovered".

And Byrrenios "discovers" his manuscript in a library that the "discoverer" of S, Tischenduper, had visited on his route back from, and in posession of, his "discovery" (a detour of a thousand miles at a time Wickedpaedia claims he was broke). During which time he confers with Bryennios' lord and master, the Patriarch.

Here is the Greek by David Robert Palmer https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/didache.pdf

Thanks - that's a valuable critical study I didn't know of, dozens of the Greek versions, including H, the Bryennios manuscript (listed separately), and the P1782 scraps. Ben Smith looked at P1782 scraps in a post I referred to above.

The critical study by David Robert Palmer has in there a listing for the "Apostolic Constitutions" but he does not say whose version. So my question remains: what's the origin of Whiston's Greek text in ~1711?

Statistics: Posted by ebion — Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:30 am

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