1 jan 50 ano - Magdalen P64 Papyrus Fragment of Matthew ~ 50 AD

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The so-called Magdalen P64 consists of three small fragments which belong to a papyrus codex written on both sides. The fragments contain some words of the 26th chapter of Matthew's gospel and were acquired in the year 1901, in Luxor (Egypt), by the Egyptologist Charles Bousfield Huleatt, who after their identification presented them to the Magdalen College, Oxford.
After their first dating, the German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede dated the fragments P64 in 1995, as belonging to the period between the years 35 and 70 AD. (1) This dating harmonizes with the patristic evidence, proving that the Gospel of Matthew is very old and was written immediately after Jesus' death.
In order to date these fragments, Thiede followed a standard paleographic criterion; he confronted the style of the writing with other papyri of explicit date, as the papyrus found in Oxyrhynchus (district of Upper Egypt), which is dated and resembles like a drop of water to those of the P64, or the papyri found in Herculaneum, whose archaeological “stop” was caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD and those of Qumran, who had their archaeological “stop” between the years 68 and 70 AD, as confirmed by an examination of the carbon-14 on the material found in the caves, when the size of the pieces made ​​it possible.
The small size of the P64 fragments did not allow the application of this test or the use of the mass spectrometry with accelerator, since these tests require at least 25 mg of material and some residue of papyrus may be destroyed. Thiede made use of other current technology tools, such as electron microscopy, and through these tests he reached the conclusion that the P64 fragments are from the first century; from around the year 50 AD. They were therefore written before the war of 70 AD, some few years after the death of Jesus.
The fragments are written in Greek and since history tells us that the Gospel of Matthew was originally written in Aramaic, Thiede's dating confirms that the Greek translation was made shortly after the first one.

(1) See: C.P. Thiede's, Papyrus Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland P64). “A Reappraisal”, ZPE 105. 1995, 13-20, pl. IX.

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