![]() ![]() This makes the Magdalen papyrus one of the oldest known fragments of the new Testament, and one of the most important documents in the world." In other words, the papyrus can be dated to about AD 60 or earlier. ![]() ![]() In his bookThe Jesus Papyruspublished by Weidenfield-Nicolson (England) and Doubleday (New York) Dr Carsten Peter Thiede wrote that the Magdalen GR 17 "is to be dated to a point within the lifetimes of eyewitnesses to Christ. This is reported in the December 1996 issue of the Baptist Reformed Fellowship Journal. The falsity of this claim is evinced in the recent discovery of a papyrus called Magdalen GR 17 kept in Magdalen College, Oxford University. They are the best representives of the autographs. We have been repeatedly told that the oldest and most reliable manuscripts are the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus codices. ![]()
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