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Highlights
On 24 December 1994 The TImes of London reported the claim by the well-known German scholar Carsten Thiede that the three papyrus fragments of Matthew's Gospel held in Oxford since 1901 date from the mid to late first century, and not from about 200 AD as most scholars agree
It is not conceivable that a copy of Mark's Gospel was to be found at Qumran. Stanton base this belief on three arguments: all of the some 42 papyrus fragments of the Gospels that far have cOme to light is from a codex
The Qumran community had little interest in writings in Greek, not to speak about an interest in Mark's Gospel, since there is a huge gap between the religious worlds of Mark and that of the Qumran community
Summary
On 24 December 1994 The TImes of London reported the claim by the well-known German scholar Carsten Thiede that the three papyrus fragments of Matthew's Gospel held in Oxford since 1901 (known as the Magdalen College Oxford fragments or P64) date from the mid to late first century, and not from about 200 AD as most scholars agree. The Qumran Fragment 7Q5 and its significance for New Testament Studies, he claimed (in following the Spanish papyrologist Jose O'Callaghan) that a papyrus fragment (written in Greek) from Cave 7 at Qumran (7Q5) is part of Mark 6:52-53, and must stem from the mid first century.
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