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Earliest yet manuscript of Mark found?

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:02 pm
by narnia4
Kind of surprised this hasn't been in the news more, only ran across it on a forum. Dan Wallace announced while debating Bart Ehrman that there was a fragment of Mark that a paleographer dated as being first century. Very sketchy details so far, here's a link that is very "cautious".

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... t-and.html

Another link-

http://thebiblicalworld.blogspot.com/20 ... -mark.html

Interesting stuff. Obviously caution is warranted and the proper processes must be carried out, so it will probably be a while before things are confirmed or debunked. And obviously even if you think you have a good case for something being from a certain period, in reality its not often neat and tidy with everyone agreeing.

Re: Earliest yet manuscript of Mark found?

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:52 am
by Christian2
A great find. :)

Re: Earliest yet manuscript of Mark found?

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:24 pm
by narnia4