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To: Mrs. Don-o

Oh, that’s exciting. I didn’t know there were any New Testament texts, even fragmentary ones at Qumran. I was citing the date for the oldest complete manuscripts.


31 posted on 12/30/2010 9:58:19 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
Hmm.. like I said, I'm no authority.

Mousing around a bit, I found this explanation in Wikipedia(Link) (which is no authority either!) which says that the fragment, which is only about the size of a postage stamp and has less than 20 legible letters on it, only "might" be from Mark, and only "might" be that early.

Of course, discoverer Thiede argues otherwise; there are pro's and con's elsewhere on the Internet; and controversy will never cease!

32 posted on 12/30/2010 11:39:37 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." ~ Lily Tomlin)
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