Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007


Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 is a fragment of a Septuagint manuscript written in two columns on a parchment codex. The manuscript was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, modern El-Bahnasa, Egypt. The manuscript has been palaeographically dated to the 3rd century CE. The manuscript is currently kept in the department of manuscripts in the British library, London.

Description

The manuscript contains sections of the Book of Genesis written in 33 lines per column. This manuscript contains the Name of God "abbreviated by doubling the initial yod, written with in the shape of a z with a horizontal line through the middle, and carried unbroken through both characters zz." The fragment is difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible recto side it contains the nomen sacrum ΘΣ and the name of God written in Hebrew with a double Yodh.
Alan Mugridge states regarding LXXP.Oxy.VII.1007 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656:

History

The manuscript was published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, part VII, edited and translated by Arthur S. Hunt, London, 1910, pages 1 and 2. It was catalogued with the number 907 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as classified by Alfred Rahlfs, and also signed as Van Haelst 5. It is given the identification 3113 on the .