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Jack Kilmon wrote:
>        In an attempt to settle such an important issue, scientists from
>various disciplines met in Eichstatt in 1991. [...]
>        Arguments against the fragment as Markan settles on some disputed
>consonants.  [...]
>        The reconstructed Greek Text of 7Q5 is thus (reconstructions in
>brackets):
>        [SUNHKAN] E[PI TOIS ARTOIS]
>        [ALLHN A]UTWN H [XARDIA PEPWRW-]
>        [MEN]H  KAI TI[APERASANTES]
>        [HLQON EIS GE]NNHS[ARET KAI]
>        PROSWRMIS]ZHSA[N  KAI EXEL-]
                   ^
       (I believe this should be "W")

A couple of points need to be made with respect to the above:

1] The "reconstructed Greek Text of 7Q5" should more properly be described
as O'Callaghan's conjectured reconstruction.  For example S.R. Pickering
and R.R.E. Cook read the fragments as follows:

     ].[
  ]. TWI {A}.[
]{H} KAI T.[
  ]{N}N H.[
   ]{W}H..[

(Where "." indicates an unknown letter and uncertainly letters are enclosed
in curly brackets.)

2] Of particular importance is the N/I difference in the second line.
Looking at photos of 7Q5, it is very difficult to see how a Nu could be
made to fit at that point on the line.  And without it, it is all but
impossible to see how O'Callaghan's identification can stand.

3] As Jack points out, any conjectured reading depends on the
reconstruction of uncertain letters (both _vowels_ and consonants).

However it is worth noting that W. Slaby demonstrated in a paper presented
to the Eichstatt conference to which Jack refers, that --based only on the
10 _sure_ letters of 7Q5, the only possible identification is with Luke
3:19-21!
(See, for example, n17 of Chap 3 of the Stanton book to which I refered
earlier.)

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