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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:57:59 -0500 (EST)
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William L. Petersen wrote:
>On 19 March, Stephen Carlson wrote:
>>                              I'd be interested in hearing other's
>>opinions on whether P5 and P75 reflect a twenty-chapter version of
>>John.
>
>Neither P5 nor P75 include John 21, but that tells us nothing, for both are
>very fragmentary.  P5 does contain parts of chap. 20:  20:11-17, 19-20, and
>22-25.  In P75 the fragmentary "snippets" of text go as far as John 15:7-8.
>See Aland & Aland, _Text of the NT_.

I'm thinking of Comfort's argument that the arrangements of the codices
which contained P5 and P75 suggest a shorter, hence twenty-chapter, gospel.
Is his argument persuasive among text critics?

Stephen Carlson
-- 
Stephen C. Carlson, George Mason University School of Law, Patent Track, 4LE
scarlso1@osf1.gmu.edu              : Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs
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