. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. the tenth ina consecutive series. The preceding ostraca withLuke xxii, 40-69 do in fact bear the numbers o however, which occurs with different pointingon most of the other members of this group, hasnot yet been explained. I conjecture that it is thenumber of a chapter according to an old ecclesi-astical division. In the copy of the gospel fromwhich the ostraca were made Luke xxii. 40 then belong to the 70th chapter of Luke,whereas in the usual ancient division
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. the tenth ina consecutive series. The preceding ostraca withLuke xxii, 40-69 do in fact bear the numbers o however, which occurs with different pointingon most of the other members of this group, hasnot yet been explained. I conjecture that it is thenumber of a chapter according to an old ecclesi-astical division. In the copy of the gospel fromwhich the ostraca were made Luke xxii. 40 then belong to the 70th chapter of Luke,whereas in the usual ancient division into chaptersit belongs to chapter 78. It will be seen at once that among the 20specimens the gospel of St. Luke is the most amplyrepresented. Two ostraca contain the consecutivetext of Luke xii. 13-16, and ten ostraca actuallycontain the complete text of Luke xxii. 40-71, [The dots above v and ri (line 8) are characteristic of the writing of thetime. Tb.] [_=riKOv<raney. Tb.] Hermann Freiherr von Soden, Die SoJmften des Neuen Testamenti in ilvreraUesten erreicKbaren Textgeatattl., Berlin, 1902, p. Fig. 3.—Ostracon from Upper Egypt, inscribed with Luke xxii. 70 f.,7th cent. Now in the Institut franQais dArchgologie orientale,Cairo. By permission of Gustave Lefebvie, of Assiout. [p. 50 NATURE OF THE NEW TEXTS 51 a large portion of the account of the Passion. Thefact that these ten ostraca belong together is markedexternally by the numerals 1-10 which, as mentionedabove, the writer affixed to them. The fragmentsjfrom St. John probably also belong to one and thesame series. This observation is important in twoways. On the one hand it points to the fact thatprobably all these gospel ostraca represent a singlefind. This is confirmed by the occurrence ofMark ix. 3 on the back of one of the fragments ofSt. Luke, as already pointed out. That passageoccurs in the account of the Transfiguration, whichimmediately precedes the section from which ostraconno. 3 (Mark ix.
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