The Apostle Paul in Cairo!!!

Posted on 23/02/2012 by

Ok, sort of. David Lincicum drew my attention to this palimpsest from the Bodleian Cairo Genizah collection with the Pastoral Epistles in CPA (Christian Palestinian Aramaic) under this Mishnah בכורות text. I don’t have a nifty program to make arrows and stuff on my photos, so just lookunder the Mishnah text and you see the CPA text; you can see it best on the right hand side in the margin.

By the way, this is what a real manuscript looks like. Not this.

Need a PhD topic, anyone?

 

 

 

About T.M. Law

I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies in the University of Oxford. I teach Hebrew & Jewish Studies, and Early Eastern Christianity. My research to date has been focused on the textual history of the Bible, but I am now also working on biblical perspectives on social ethics. My main concerns in the latter area are immigration and asylum, economics, and hip hop music.
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5 Responses to The Apostle Paul in Cairo!!!

  1. Pingback: Not-a-1500 Year Old Bible in Turkey | timothymichaellaw

  3. Jim says:
    25/02/2012 at 23:37

    Reblogged this on Zwinglius Redivivus and commented:
    Great post from my BFF at Oxford-

    Reply
  4. Tim Bulkeley says:
    26/02/2012 at 21:46

    Can you tell us more? This is fascinating. Or point us to more information?

    Reply

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