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Uwe-Karsten Plisch

Zu einigen Einleitungsfragen des Unbekannten Berliner Evangeliums (UBE)

The essay discusses the typical issues of introduction to the Unknown Berlin Gospel/Gospel of the Savior (P 22220): origin of the text (unknown, perhaps Egypt or Syria), original language (Greek, not Coptic) and date (approximately the second half of the 2nd century). According to the author’s personal collation of the parchment, the essay con rms the new order of the fragments established by Stephen Emmel. A major part of the article deals with written sources of Gos.Sav (Matt, John, Rev, Gos.Peter, The Agraphon of the Fire, including a theological analysis of the reference to Gen 49,11) and its relations to other texts like the Strasbourg Coptic Papyrus or LibBarth. The fascinating relations to the Acts of Andrew, so far not taken in consideration, are also discussed, leading to the cautious hypothesis that the fragments of Gos.Sav could have been part of the Gospel of Andrew, mentioned in the Decretum Gelasianum directly after the Gospel of Bartholomew.

Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0949-9571
Volume: 9, 10/2005
Pages: 64 - 84

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