Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect: Otherwise called Sahidic and Thebaic 9781463228071

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Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect

Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature 48

Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature brings back into print book-length standard texts and research monographs on the earliest literature of Christianity. Classic editions of the works of the Fathers of the Church, translations into modern languages, critical monographs on individual texts, and surveys of the ancient literature have all been done; they are often referred to; but many of them are difficult for a modern reader to access, as they moulder in the pages of periodicals of limited circulation or availability.

Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect

Otherwise called Sahidic and Thebaic

Volume 4 Edited by

George William Horner

1 gorgias press 2010

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Printed in the United States of America

INTRODUCTORY

NOTE

Professor of Arabic at Oxford, published in 1799 the fragments of the Pauline Epistles collected by Woide, consisting of a few verses from all except Philippians,, 2 Thessalonians, Titus, and Philemon. Shortly before, in 1789, M. P. Miinter at Copenhagen had given verses from the Epistles to Timothy, in his work upon the nature of the Sahidic dialect: in 1810 Zoega published Ephesians v. 21-33 in his Catalogus, and in 1811 Engelbreth printed a few passages also from the Borgian collection. No effort was made after this beginning until 1885, when Maspero published fragments of the Epistles of St. Paul, and about the same time Amelineau contributed to periodicals a large amount of text, derived from Rome and from the Crawford fragments formerly belonging to Archdeacon Tattam, which are now in the John Rylands library at Manchester. Dr. Oscar von Lemm in St. Petersburg, Dr. Leipoldt in Berlin, and Professor Boeser in Leyden also printed and lithographed a small quantity of text. Then in 1904 Padre Balestri, taking up the work of Cardinal Ciasca in Rome, produced as far as possible a continuous text from the Borgian fragments, appending thereto variant reading of all the other fragments in the same collection. This important work greatly assisted the present editor, who, after collating the D R . H . FORD,

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fragments again, can vouch for the accuracy of the Vatican publication. Large lacunae, however, still remained to be supplied : nine chapters of 2 Corinthians were absent, two from Galatians, the second of 2 Timothy ; and seven were wanting in Hebrews. Before visiting Rome the editor had collated all the fragments of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, where they had been catalogued provisionally but not published by Amélineau. The editor also collated a small number in the Louvre and at Naples, these last partly from photographs lent by Professor Hyvernat, of Washington, further a few from the Patriarchate library in Cairo, and finally the fragments of the British Museum hitherto unpublished were added to supply the lacunae. Attempt was made to obtain photographs of the Morgan collection in America, which is reported to contain the entire text of the Pauline Epistles ; but the request of the Clarendon Press was not granted ; and the war soon put an end to all printing of unremunerative work. Fortunately Dr. Wessely, of Vienna, had just published his lithograph edition of the Archduke Earner's Sahidic New Testament fragments, which the editor was not permitted to collate in 1905 ; and by this means many small lacunae were filled up through the kindness of Sir Herbert Thompson, who with prescient promptness secured the publication, and allowed the editor to collate the text. W h e n the war had delayed the Press from printing, it had also arrested the supply of material for the publication of Egyptian research supported by a fund

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recently begun by Dr. Griffith, Reader of Egyptian at Oxford. Through Dr. Alan Gardiner this fund was found able to give a subsidy to the Press, and, notwithstanding the still fragmentary condition of the text, it was thought good to commence printing in 1917, though the Epistle to the Romans still lacked 81 imperfect or missing verses, 1 Corinthians 101, 2 Corinthians 99, Hebrews 36, Colossians 2, I Thessalonians 1, 2 Thessalonians 2, 1 Timothy 1, 2 Timothy 8, Tiius 7, and Philemon 3 verses, beside a few more verses slightly imperfect, of which the text is practically complete.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV PAGE T H E E P I S T L E TO R O M A N S

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SECOND E P I S T L E TO C O R I N T H I A N S

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APPENDIX CHAPTERS OE LARGE SECTIONS OF THE MORGAN MS. .

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COMPARISON OF THESE LARGE SECTIONS, SAHIDIC (S), BOHAIRIC (B), AND VATICAN M S . GREEK ( V ) . . . . 4 5 2

THE COPTIC VERSION or

THE NEW

TESTAMENT

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