The Magdalen Papyrus

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The quote below comes from The Indestructible Book by Dr, David L. Brown, The Old Paths Publications, 2015, page 76.

ISBN 9780998777894

 

"Then there is the exciting discovery of The Magdalen Papyrus. Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede, Director of the Institute for Basic Epistemological Research in Paderborn, Germany, uncovered it," (in 1994).

"I should note that Dr. Theide is not a Textus Receptus (Traditional Text) supporter! Dr. Thiede examined three New Testament fragments called The Magdalen Papyrus because it was donated to 

Magdalen College in Oxford, England. These fragments were originally acquired in Luxor, Egypt in 1901. In 1953 they were dated to about 180-200 A.D. However, Dr. Theide carefully redated them and 

placed them at 66 A.D., making them the ONLY first century New Testament fragments extant. 

There is more! Using a very technical and accurate epifluorescent confocal scanning microscope, he found that the Matthew 26:22 fragment revealed the Textus Receptus reading! It reads "hekasotos auton,"-

"every one of them," as the King James reads, as opposed to "heis hakastos,"- "each one" [one after another], as the critical text read.

This fragment clearly documents the antiquity of the Textus Receptus text to the time of Peter, Paul, John the Apostle, etc. Increasingly, the recension theory, which we will explain later, is being exposed for

the sham that it is!"

 

Many other articles found online confirm its existence but some dispute the dating, three sites are listed below.

 

https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-magdalen-papyrus-p64-possibly-the-earliest-known-fragments-of-the-new-testament-or-of-a-book/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_papyrus

https://textus-receptus.com/wiki/Magdalen_papyrus

 

 

Edited April 22 by SGO