Prof. Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede (8 August 1952 West Berlin - 14 December 2004) was a German biblical scholar from the 20th century, best known for his textual criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the hopeful identification of the 7Q5 papyrus as a fragment of the Gospel of Mark. Thiede was an advocate for O’Callaghan’s claims that numerous portions of the Qumran scrolls from Cave 7 are actually Christian New Testament texts from pre AD 70. The adduced texts are very fragmentary and ambiguous, and mainstream scholars have not agreed. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fragments of the scrolls on display at the Archeological Museum, Amman The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 850 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on... Fragment 5 from Cave 7 of the Qumran Community Among the Dead Sea scrolls, 7Q5 is the designation for a parchment fragment discovered in Cave 7 of the Qumran community. ... The Gospel of Mark is traditionally the second of the New Testament Gospels. ... Qumran (Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. ...

In December 1994, Thiede's redating of the Magdalen papyrus, which bears a fragment in Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, to the later 1st century on palaeographical grounds provoked much debate. The Magdalen papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Rev Charles B. Huleatt (1863-1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, (accession number P64) whence they have their name. ... The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Greek: Κατα Μαθθαιον ) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ... Palaeography (British) or paleography (American) (from the Greek palaiós, old and graphein, to write) is the study of ancient and medieval manuscripts, independent of the language (Koine Greek, Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Old English, etc. ...

In The Quest for the True Cross, Thiede argues that the Titulus Crucis was truly part of Jesus' cross written by a Jewish scribe used to writing right to left. He cites that the order of the languages match what is historically accurate and not the order shown in the Bible. Amazon's publisher review states the authors' "case appears rather thin, using scanty evidence to make definitive assertions about the True Cross".^[1] Titulus Crucis (Latin Title of Cross) is a relic kept in the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome - the earlier palace by Helena of Constantinople - which the tradition claims in 1140 is the half of titulus and a part of the True Cross. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Biblical_Jesus. ... The Bible (Hebrew תנ״ך [tanakh], Greek η Βίβλος [he biblos] ) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity...

English bibliography

• The Heritage of the First Christians (1994) ISBN 0745925448
• Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth (1996) ISBN 1563381362
• Jesus: Life or Legend (2001) ISBN 0745938957
• The Dead Sea Scrolls (2001) ISBN 0745950507
• The Quest for the True Cross (2002) ISBN 0312294247
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity (2003) ISBN 1403961433

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External link

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity, 2003, ISBN 1403961433
• Critical review of Thiede's Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel, 1995: a collection of Thiede's articles