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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Timothy John Finney
wrote, in part:
>Mark E. Burrill wrote:
>
>> On a related topic and purely as a matter of curiosity on my part, could
>> anyone happen to tell me what the oldest mss are that are believed to
>> have existed throughout their lives in the regions west of Palestine and
>> North of Egypt?
>
>That's in the Mediterranean isn't it? Sorry, I couldn't resist that. Off
>the top of my head, the oldest candidates for being non-Egyptian mss would
>be the uncial fragments dated to the third C, but I suspect that they are
>from Egypt. Does anyone know where they were found? Besides them, there
>are 01 (Codex Sinaiticus) and 03 (Codex Vaticanus). There is evidence to
>suggest that 01 was made at Caesarea. 03 might also be from there or
>Southern Italy, but my bet is Egypt.
Minor point of information:
I believe that the oldest "biblical" manuscript found outside Egypt,
apart from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other OT fragments, is 0212 --
the Diatessaron fragment from Dura. It's dated III. But one uncial --
and it not a true NT fragment -- doesn't tell us much.
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