Friday, November 01, 2013

2 Baruch at Oxyrhynchus

LIV INGEBORG LIED: Verso.
This is a picture of the verso page of P. Oxy 3 403, a Greek papyrus fragment, possibly dating from the late fourth century ce, containing the oldest known fragment of 2 Bar. 12:1-13:2 and 13:11-14:2. The fragment was published by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1903, but it has generally received far too little attention in scholarship. I am pretty sure that you have never seen this fragment before, and if you happen to have seen it reproduced in Grenfell and Hunt’s edition, you still have not seen the verso page: their list of plates shows only the recto.

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For much more on the Oxyrhynchus papyri, see the immediately preceding post here.

Some posts on 2 Baruch, including photos of the Syriac manuscript (and of Liv and some other 2 Baruchians and Enochians), are here, here, here, and here.