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By Colin. H Roberts
The origins and improvement of the Church in Egypt stay one of many vexed difficulties of early Christian historical past. In his Schweich Lectures, introduced in 1977, Dr C. H. Roberts examines the facts of the Christian papyri chanced on in Egypt to work out what mild they forged at the difficulties and the way some distance they aid statements in our historical experts or the theories of contemporary students. between concerns mentioned are the impact of Judaism and no matter if Gnosticism used to be rather as robust within the first 3 centuries in Egypt as is typically notion; specific recognition is paid to the historic value in those early manuscripts of the nomina sacra, the abbreviations of the divine names.
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In!. \t T9V XRf[a]r9[v the papyrus (now Bod!. MS. Cr. bib!. d. 6 (P)), is all but illegible, but to assume';' reading xpv would result in too short a line. 3 In his list of nomina sacra in third-century texts of the New Testament O'Callaghan (see p. 26 n. I) cites one instance of' 17)CTOO, written out from the Bodmer codex of Luke and John (= H. 406) at John 6: 1 I. The ed. pr. here reads 0 ,]n[CT]9V[, Ka, €VXapwT7)CTa]? [o,]€OW on which the editors commented lectio valde dubia; alibi undique compendia utitur librarius.
6 For eccentric forms in some documents see P. Merton ii. 93 and P. , p. 42. 28 NOMINA SACRA few instances of words outside the standard list being contracted; some come from the pen of an obviously unskilled or ignorant scribe, but one or two (which will be examined later) occur in one of the earliest of all Christian papyri and witness to a stage at which the system was still to some extent fluid. The nomina sacra have naturally been given close attention by palaeographers, but hopes that a detailed study of their variations might provide a clue to the provenance of manuscripts or their relationships have where the earliest period at any rate is concerned been disappointed.!
Here there may be an important clue to the origin of the system. More evidence on this point comes from no. I I, the Egerton Gospel in the British Library. EVat. 4 In any period there' are very occasional eccentric forms, most of which occur once only and then usually in a badly written manuscript, the result of the misunderstanding or vagaries of a particular scribe;5 but both the early date and the connectedness of this group set them apart. It seems to represent an experimental phase in the history of the system when its limits were not clearly established, though the basic words were; Mw is clearly formed on the analogy of IH.