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The Authorship of Egerton Papyrus No. 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick
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Queens' College, Cambridge, England
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In Vigiliae Christianae for November 1955 (vol. ix, pp. 212–217) Mr. Robert Leaney contributed some comments upon the interpretation, reconstruction, and authorship of the sadly mutilated fragments from a codex, tentatively described as a ‘Gospel Commentary’ when first published by Sir Harold Idris Bell and Mr. T. C. Skeat in 1935 together with the Fragments of an Unknown Gospel. Following the lead of Professor Robert M. Grant (Vig. Chr. ii, 1948, pp. 243–247) he would ascribe the fragments to Origen, but offers different restorations of two sentences, and thinks that a homily is a more probable origin than an early commentary on the Psalms as proposed by Grant.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 1956 , pp. 145 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1956

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References

1 Ed. Vallarsi, vii (Venice, 1769), cols. 20 D, 237 C. Jerome treats Matthew xxvii.53 similarly in Epist. 120.8. For his borrowings from Origen see Harnack, , Der kirchengeschichtliche Ertrag der exegetischen Arbeiten des Origenes, ii (T.U. 42, 4, Leipzig, 1919), pp. 141 ffGoogle Scholar.

2 A similar arrière-pensée appears in Origen's comment on Eph. vi.12, preserved in the catena of cod. Coisl. 204 edited by J. A. F. Gregg in J. T. S. iii (1902), p. 572: “The spirits of wickedness inhabit the heavenly place, that is, the air.”

3 P. Oxy. 405, and thereon the remarks of Roberts, C. H., ‘Early Christianity in Egypt: three Notes,’ in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 40 (1954), p. 94CrossRefGoogle Scholar.