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The Egerton Gospel ( British Library Egerton Papyrus 2 ) refers to a group of papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934 ; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD, although the date of composition is less clear – perhaps 50-100 AD.
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The mysterious Egerton Gospel appears to represent a parallel but independent tradition to the Gospel of John.
To date it is one of four early non-canonical narrative gospels, which exist only in fragmentary form: this Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, and the two very fragmentary Oxyrhynchus Gospels ( P. Oxy.
When the Egerton fragment was first analyzed, the estimated date was rivaled in age only by the John Rylands Library fragment of the Gospel of John.
On the other hand, suggestions that the Egerton Gospel served as a source for the authors of Mark and / or John also lack conclusive evidence.
The Egerton Gospel has been largely ignored outside a small circle of scholars.
Conservative scholar Craig Evans supports a date for Egerton Gospel later than the canonical Gospels in a variety of ways.
He finds many parallels between the Egerton Gospel and the canonical Gospels that include editorial language particular to Matthew and Luke.
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Roberts notes comments that had recently been made by the editors of the Egerton Gospel ; and says similarly it could be said of < sup > 52 </ sup > that it " has a somewhat informal air about it and with no claims to fine writing is yet a careful piece of work ".
) The year before Roberts published < sup > 52 </ sup >, the British Museum library had acquired papyrus fragments of the Egerton Gospel which are also from a codex, and these were published in 1935.
Since the text of < sup > 52 </ sup > is that of the canonical Gospel of John, whereas the Egerton Gospel is not, there was considerable interest amongst biblical scholars as to whether < sup > 52 </ sup > could be dated as the earlier of the two papyri.
6845 ( a fragment of the Iliad estimated to date around 100 CE ) which he suggested ( other than in the form of the letter alpha ) is " the closest parallel to our text that I have been able to find "; and the Egerton Gospel itself, which was then estimated to date around 150 CE.
However, a cautionary note was raised by the discovery that a papyrus fragment in Cologne constitutes part of the Egerton Gospel.
In this fragment the letters gamma and kappa are separated by an apostrophe, a feature very rare in dated second century papyri ; which accordingly implies a date for the Egerton Gospel closer to 200 CE-and indicates the perils of ascribing a date for a papyrus text of which only a small part of two pages survives.
The early date for < sup > 52 </ sup > favoured by many New Testament scholars has been challenged by Andreas Schmidt, who favours a date around 170 AD, plus or minus twenty-five years ; on the basis of a comparison with Chester Beatty Papyrus X and with the redated Egerton Gospel.
There has, however, been some contention as to whether the name ΙΗΣΟΥ ( Jesus ) in the ' missing ' portions of recto lines 2 and 5 was originally written as nomen sacrum ; in other words, was it contracted to ΙΣ or ΙΗΣ in accordance with otherwise universal Christian practice in surviving early Gospel manuscripts, including the Egerton Gospel?
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Egerton and British
* 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
The British Association came to his aid, and the Earl of Ellesmere — then Lord Francis Egerton — gave him yet more efficient help.
From a manuscript of the Roman de Brut by Wace ( British Library, Egerton 3208 ).
From a manuscript of the Roman de Brut by Wace in the British Library ( Egerton 3028 ).
In the medieval Irish tale entitled The Training of Cú Chulainn, preserved as a copy by Richard Tipper in British Library, Egerton 106, it gives the following mention:
Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater FRS ( 11 November 1756 – 11 February 1829 ), known as Francis Egerton until 1823, was a noted British eccentric, and supporter of natural theology.
He bequeathed to the British Museum the valuable Egerton Manuscripts, consisting of 67 manuscripts dealing with the literature of France and Italy, and £ 12, 000 to establish the Egerton Fund from which the Museum could purchase additional manuscripts.
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh ( born 20 July 1950 ) is a British Conservative politician.
* Charles Francis Egerton Allen, British Member of Parliament for Pembroke and Haverfordwest, 1892 – 1895
Thomas of Woodstock survives only as an anonymous and untitled manuscript, lacking its final page ( or pages ), and is now stored in the Egerton Manuscript Collection, in the British Library.
This manuscript forms part of the Egerton Collection in the British Library.
Francis Ronald Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland ( b. 18 February 1940 ), known as Francis Egerton until 2000, is a British peer.
Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope ( 29 December 1925 – 25 April 1997 ) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels.
Imram Curaig Mailduin is preserved, in each case imperfectly, in the Lebor na hUidre, a manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ; and in the Yellow Book of Lecan, MS. H. 216 in the Trinity College Library, Dublin ; fragments are in Harleian MS. 5280 and Egerton MS. 1782 in the British Museum.
The Melisende Psalter ( London, British Library, Egerton MS 1139 ) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende.
This manuscript forms part of the Egerton Collection in the British Library.
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater ( 21 May 1736 – 8 March 1803 ), known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman, the younger son of the 1st Duke.
Egerton and Library
In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London accepted the manuscript for publication, in three volumes.
In 2008, as part of the Library of Chinese Classics, the Clement Egerton version was republished.
Breton Gospel Book ( British Library, MS Egerton 609 ) | Breton Gospel Book: Folio 8 rect, the incipit page to the Gospel of Matthew
Although written in Latin the Breton Gospel ( British Library, Egerton 609 ) is an important literary work in terms of the wider scope of Breton culture.
Egerton and Papyrus
Later, when an additional piece of the same manuscript was identified in the University of Cologne collection ( Papyrus Köln 255 ) and published in 1987 — it fit on the bottom of one of the Egerton pages — a single use of an apostrophe, which was not normally added to Greek punctuation until the 3rd century, sufficed to revise the date of the manuscript.
Ronald Cameron states: " Since Papyrus Egerton 2 displays no dependence upon the gospels of the New Testament, its earliest possible date of composition would be sometime in the middle of the first century, when the sayings and stories which underlie the New Testament first began to be produced in written form.
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