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Last winter when members of the Brit- ish School of Archeology in Egypt were ploring at Qua-el-Kebir, a headland of the eastern cliffs up the Nile, about thirty railes south of Asalus, and over a hundred miles north of Thebes and Luxor, they S made many fresh discoveries, writes the RETE FUND Rey,

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EASTERN BRANCHES: of the British School who was Bomber Calante, Samohi, Madras, Jokamko, directing the operations, was at work in Sing spoco, bigong and Shanghe. an old Christian evmetery containing Cop sie tombstones and Roman graves

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small bundl about the size of a man- fist. This bu dle had as an outer wrapping some linen cloth, and a pep inside the cloth revealed bundle of papyrus leaves, containing evidently sme Christian Scripture in Cop tic writing Mr. Brustor packed the

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When the parking was opened and amined by the Hon, Director of the Brit ish School of Archaelogy, Sir Elinders Petrie, he found that it contained a tallREAKY FUND narrow book of papyrus doubled acro

and tied tightly in a eluth. He dese bribes it as therefore much

strained and skewed. On one side it was partly and the rest of it was extremely h With all his practised kill Sir Flinders Petrie treated the papyrus so delicately, that within a a fortnight he was able to eparate the fragile leaves one from the other, and also to preserve the linea rag in which they had been tied so long. TO his jos he found that the leaves numbered no inwer than 43, most of them in good

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leaf measures about 10 inch high by 41 inches broad, There are still remains of the stitching which arginally held the book together.

Une back lenf "was found ia- sert d in the middle of the volume, doubt less to preserve it from being lost after it had got torn away from its proper post- tion.. The leaves are written on both side with 23 to 37 lines on a page. The page pre numbered in Coptic letters The Chefoo Brst three leaves (six pages) are wanting Dairen at the beginuing, two leaves containing Hair PP. 11 and 19, 33 and 34 are missing, and probably three mor leaves have disap penred from the end. Originally, there- far the book mus have run to about a bundred pages,

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A preliminary examination showed that the papyrus contained the text of St. Nohn's Gopal in Coptic written in a re gular and cholarly hand. The mar gins, the spacing of lines and letters, and the general calligraphy prove that the

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The height of the page and the condition of the hookggest must have been a churches. So far as the manuscript has been deciphered it exhibits, "as such na age- worn copy

continge can exhibit, translation of St. John's Gospel as Ta know it from the Greek text.

The two main questions which arise con- cern (1) the date when this manuscript was written, and (2) the nghal text which it contains

With regard to the question of date, Sir Flinders Petrie and his colleagues agree that the regular classical hand in which the manuscript is written, and its general condition, suggest an early period.

Coptic, the late form of the ancient Egyptian Inguage, is written in Greek characters with half a dozen andlitical letters, it is posible to compare the present papyrus very closely with the sidest known Greek Biblical manuscripts. These are the Codex Vaticans (Codex B), now in the Vati cais Library at Sinaiticus (Codex signed to the fourth Colex. century. the Alphy, HOW in Detrograd, usually assign- d to date lightly later; and the Codes Alexandrinus (Codex A), in the

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letter are occasionally found in the Vati. cau manuscript which are believed to be exclusively Egyptian, and that the writing

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adds weight to any such class of Greek text was recognised by the among other pieces of information, what co Petrie, and his colleagues have the basis for this early version.

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is that the date of this paprus- writing must be placed towards the close The generosity of a few friends of the

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of the oldest manu- don, where it will be available for scholars scripts of the text of anything like the and others interested in the subject. complet Gospel in any tongue, end the earliest specimen of a manuscript of the Gospel of St. John in any Public Library in Britain,

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As to the text, we must await the result of the full examination which is being made by the Orptic scholar Sir Herbert Thompson, who is editing the volume which the British School of Archeology in Egypt is publishing in connection with this manuscript. Already Sir Herbert Thompson has found that its readings. agree in the main with those of the Sa- hidic (or Southern) version of the Coptic text, though they contain a primitive form of that version with many interest ing variants, e will deal with this and all kindred topics in the book which the British School of Archaology in Egypt hopes to issue during 1924. This

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thin photographs of the 50 pages, a tran script of the text in ordinary Coptic prin trd type, a literal translation in English, and a discussion of the text collatal with the readings of the best-kunwn mano. scripts, We shall then be able to know, (Continued on next colunin.)

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