The Dating of New Testament Papyri

@article{Barker2011TheDO,
  title={The Dating of New Testament Papyri},
  author={Don Barker},
  journal={New Testament Studies},
  year={2011},
  volume={57},
  pages={571 - 582}
}
  • Don Barker
  • Published 5 September 2011
  • History
  • New Testament Studies
The narrow dating of some of the early New Testament papyri and the methodological approach that is used must be brought into question in the light of the acknowledged difficulties with palaeographical dating and especially the use of assigned dated literary papyri. The thesis of this paper is that the way forward in dating New Testament papyri, or for that matter any undated literary papyri, is first to locate the manuscript in its graphic stream and using, on the whole, dated documentary… 
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