7Q5 - Carsten Thiede, Jose Callaghan and the NT DSS fragments

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APPENDIX B
7Q5
Wilbur Pickering
http://www.revisedstandard.net/text/WNP/ap_b.html
Once 7Q5 is firmly identified with Mark 6:52-53 then the probability that 7Q4 is to be identified with 1 Tim. 3:16, 4:1,3 and 7Q8 with James 1:23-24 becomes very strong. The remaining fragments are so small that dogmatism is untenable—O'Callaghan's identifications are possible, but cannot be insisted upon. It seems to me that 7Q5, 4, and 8 may be viewed as relevant to the thesis of this book in the following sense. That someone should have such a collection of New Testament writings at such an early date may suggest their early recognition as Scripture and even imply an early notion of a New Testament canon.[

[11]One might even be inclined to join F.F. Bruce in his flight of the imagination (Eternity, June, 1972, p. 33, last paragraph). Anything hidden in those caves was presumably placed there before 70 AD, and any manuscript placed there would of necessity have been copied still earlier. Before O'Callaghan's identification, 7Q5 had been dated at around 50 AD. If it is a copy of Mark then the Autograph was written even earlier, and by an eyewitness.

Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth (1995)
Carsten Peter Thiede
https://books.google.com/books?id=_ak3KqUEdNYC&pg=PA178
 
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