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> TC'ers
> Can anyone please confirm or deny that parchment replaced papyrus near the
> end of the second century.
> Thanks
> Rich Elliott, ENTTC

Incorrect as stated.  Papyrus continued in use much later, examples 
easily down through 7th cent CE, even later.  Second, parchment & 
papyrus were *both* used during these early centuries, so it's not a 
matter of one dropping off & the other coming on-line.
For info on specific examples, see Joseph van Haelst, _Catalogue des 
papyrus litteraires Juifs et Chretiens_ (Paris:  Publications de la 
Sorbonne, 1976).
 
L. W. Hurtado
University of Edinburgh,
New College
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Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LX
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