P50 - Elijah Hixson suggests Kirsopp Lake forgery

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Munster - Liste (Greek) - INTF
https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste/?ObjID=10050

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Papyrus 50 - Wikipedia

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Papyrus 50 (Gregory-Aland), designated by 𝔓50, is an early copy of a small part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 8:26-32; 10:26-31. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 3rd/4th century.[1] Elijah Hixson suggests that the manuscript may possibly be a forgery based on

anomalies in line spacing,
some text seeming to wrap around lacunae, and
serious issues with fiber alignment in the papyrus.[2]

Description
The Greek text of this codex is mixed. It has some orthographical peculiarities and corrections. Aland placed it in Category III.[1] The text generally concurs with Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.[3]

The nomina sacra are contracted (ΙΛΗΜ, ΠΝΑ, ΑΝΟΣ, ΑΝΟΝ, ΘΣ, ΘΥ, ΚΥ).[4]

The manuscript was purchased in Paris by Yale University in 1933 along with other manuscripts of Egyptian provenance.[5] The text of the codex was published in 1937 by Carl H. Kraeling.[6]


Papyrus 50; Acts 10:26-31
It is currently housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (P.CtYBR inv. 1543) in New Haven.[1][7][8]

[1]
Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

[2]
Hixson, Elijah (1 February 2021). "Possible Markers of Inauthenticity in a Greek New Testament Papyrus (Elijah Hixson)". YouTube. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

[3]
Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 69.

[4]
Carl H. Kraeling, Two Selections from Acts, in: Lake F/S, p. 169.

[5]
Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, Tyndale House Publishers, 2001, p. 362.

[6]
Carl H. Kraeling, Two Selections from Acts, in: Lake F/S, pp. 163-172.

[7]
"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

[8]
Beinecke papyrus database.
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Ironically, I only ran into this when searching one of the unusual, longer word, Sinaiticus nomina sacra!

abbreviations including nomina sacra

Andrews https://christianpublishinghouse.co/2018/03/14/new-testament-textual-studies-what-are-the-nomina-sacra-and-their-origin/ nomen sacrum θ̅ω̅ of 1 Corinthians 14:2 is referring to “God” the Father. - helping the reader differentiate between “God” the father and “god.” It is “God.” ΚΣ or...
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ΠΝΙΚΟΣ (πνευματικος / spiritual)
ΙΛΗΜ (Ιερουσαλημ / Jerusalem)
ΑΝΟΣ (ανθρωπος / man)
ΔΑΔ (Δαυιδ / David)

ΙΣΡΛ (Ισραηλ / Israel)
ΜΗΡ(μητηρ / mother)

Ονοσ: Ανθρωποσ
D'Arcy W. Thompson

Classical Quarterly 39 (1-2):54- (1945) Copy BIBTEX
https://philpapers.org/rec/THO-24

In my translation of the Historia Animalium, now thirty-five years old, I pointed out a couple of passages where νθρωπος stood in the text though νος seemed to be the appropriate word. It had not occurred to me for the moment, though it soon after wards did, that ανος was at hand to account for so curious a misreading. The same contraction has other misreadings to account for, as we may read in Cobet; but I do not know that this one has been drawn attention to
 
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That Nothing May Be Lost: Fragments and the New Testament Text:
Papers from the Twelfth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
“Possible Markers of Inauthenticity in a Greek New Testament Papyrus.” (2021)
Elijah Hixson
https://www.academia.edu/97602224/T...on_the_Textual_Criticism_of_the_New_Testament

Elijah Hixson is a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of New Testament Studies in Plano, Texas and earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked as a Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language at Tyndale House, Cambridge and is the author of Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices and co-editor of Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. He has also published numerous articles in the Tyndale Bulletin, New Testament Studies, and The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.
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Silva Lake is on post #12
Note lack of provenance on next post "Egypt".
Simonides Homer not mentioned on p. 4-5 Beinecke - check Beinecke Inventory #

p. 5-7
1. Fibre direction

p. 8-13
Text Avoidance Lacunae

p. 13-18
Observations on the Ink

p. 18-20
Anomalous letterforms

p. 21-13
Discrepancy between the copyist’s apparent knowledge and skill
An authentic papyrus with many of the same anomalies

p. 29-32
Interlude
Genre

p. 32
A PROPOSAL FOR THE CULPRIT’S IDENTITY
p. 34
Aspects that point to Kirsopp Lake

p. 36
Means, Motive and Opportunity

p. 37-38
Conclusion and Suggestions
 
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Paul Barford
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2021/02/authenticity-of-greek-new-testament.html
Monday 1 February 2021
Authenticity of A Greek New Testament Papyrus in Question
Yale University p 50 (Wikipedia)
Yale University's Papyrus 50 is a Greek New Testament manuscript that was thought to be datable on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd/4th century. It contains bits of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 8:26-32; 10:26-31). Unfortunately it looks like any scholarship based on it now needs revision: Elijah Hixson Possible Markers of Inauthenticity in a Greek New Testament Papyrus: Genuinely Bad or a Very Good Fake?
In this paper I suggest that a Greek New Testament papyrus might be a modern forgery. While there is no single smoking gun strong enough to prove that the papyrus is a modern production, there are a number of red flags that mark it as suspicious. These include anomalous letterforms, writing that avoids holes in the papyrus (such that the text was certainly written after the papyrus medium had been damaged in some instances), ink bleeding, and a discrepancy between the copyist’s apparent knowledge of literary manuscripts and his or her skill in producing one. Where possible, I give comparisons of these aspects with the same phenomena in known fakes. However, many of these red flags could be explained in such a way that does not de-authenticate the manuscript, and I also give a counter-example of a (genuine) private letter from Alexandria that exhibits some of the same red flags. Still, the number of red flags in the Greek New Testament papyrus is suspicious. I suggest that the papyrus should be subjected to further testing in order to authenticate or de-authenticate it as a genuinely ancient New Testament manuscript.
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Note that while the scholar is rather diffident about saying outright that the manuscript is a fake, the evidence he presents seem pretty convincing that it is. P 50 (p. Yale I 3; LDAB 2861) was purchased in Paris by Yale University in 1933 along with other manuscripts of Egyptian provenance. The provenance given was "Egypt". Once again are highlighted the problems of using in research ungrounded and unpapered artefacts that "surfaced" on the antiquities market. Scholars should simply avoid using them.
 
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Bible Papyrus P50 Acts chapter 8 . chapter.108
Mar 19, 2012•Download as DOCX, PDF•
http://www.slideshare.net/dorindavidaurel1948/bible-papyrus-p50-acts-chapter-8

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Translator - Conservative : Aurel David Dorin OBedeya Ben Aharon Cohen Bible Papyrus P50 Acts chapter 8. chapter.10
Location of permanent residence: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibliothek Pap, no inventory. G. 2323 seniority Date: sec I destroyed reworked secIV-V (III-IV: Comfort; IV: Maldfeld, Hunger; V: Roberts\/Skeat)
Contains: Act 8: 26-30 (Col. 1r); 8: 30-32 (Col. 2v); 10: 26-27 (2v., col); 10: 27-30 (Col. 3v); 10: 30-31 (Col. 4r)\/
State of physical description of the manuscript preservation: flimsy Foil: 1 Size: 13.8 x frg 8.8 cm lines\ /sentences: 22 (Col. 1); 21 (Col. 2 + 3); 6 (Col. 4) Column: 2
 
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The Sylva Lake comment

From the paper of Hixson

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(Archaic Mark ..) She still would not commit to a position regarding its authenticity, but she remarked, ‘It’s either 14th century or a 19th
century forgery, and if a forgery, either a serious attempt or a spoof by someone like my husband!’54

Perhaps Silva Lake’s comment reveals more than she intended at the time. Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946) was a New Testament textual critic and Harvard professor who certainly had the means and opportunity to produce P50, and according to his wife, he may have had the motive as well. By 1970, she did not seem to think it had been beneath her late husband to make a fake manuscript as a spoof. Silva Lake and Kirsopp’s daughter Agnes were two of the three editors of Lake’s Festschrift (along with Robert Casey) in which the editio princeps of P50 was published.55 If it was a fake, they—especially Silva—would have almost certainly known the truth. From this working hypothesis that Kirsopp Lake is the scribe of P50 and created it as a spoof or joke, there does seem to be an intent to deceive but not in a malicious manner. If Lake is its creator, I suggest that he intended the papyrus to be published, accepted, and forgotten before its authenticity was questioned.

54 Cited from Mitchell, Barabe, and Quandt, 'Chicago’s "Archaic Mark”’, 132. Many thanks to Margaret M. Mitchell, who helped me verify the
contents of these letters.

55 Casey, Lake, and Lake, eds., Quantulacumque.

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With regard to motive, I can only refer again to Silva Lake’s comments in 1970. I suspect that if Kirsopp Lake did create P50, it was simply a joke to him—a spoof. If P50 is indeed such a spoof, it would not be the only such manuscript created for this purpose. Bruce Metzger recounts the story of the ‘Partridge Manuscript’ ...
 
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Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach (2010)
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