The Fayyum Fragment is a papyrus fragment containing text that could form part of the New Testament, and consists of only about 100 Greek letters. The fragment was originally discovered in Al-Fayyum, Egypt, and was translated in 1885 by Gustav Bickell after it was found in the papyrus collection of Archduke Ranier in Vienna. Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. ... John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... Al Fayyum or El Faiyûm (Arabic: الÙيوم ) is the capital of Al Fayyum Governorate, Egypt. ... Gustav Bickell ((7 July 1838–15 January 1906) was a German orientalist. ... Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...
The surviving manuscript is badly damaged and has fewer than a hundred Greek letters preserved, and is believed to have been copied sometime in the third century. The text seems to parallel Mark 14:26-31, appearing to present a more abbreviated account. It is unclear whether the fragment is an abridged version of the synoptic gospels, or a source text on which they were based. As such, discovery of a more full text would have a considerable significance in investigation of the origin and historicity of the gospels. The Synoptic Gospels is a term used by modern New Testament scholars for the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke of the New Testament in the Bible. ...
The text states:
[As he] lead them out, he s[ai]d, "[You will] a[ll] fall away [during this] night [according to] the scripture: 'I will strike the [shepherd and the] sheep [will be] scattered'." [Then] Peter [said], "Even if everyone does, [I will] n[ot]." [Jesus said, "Befo]re the cock cr[ows] twice, [three times] [you will d]eny [me today]".
References
Wilhelm Schneemelcher, ed., translation by R. McL. Wilson, New Testament Apocrypha : Gospels and Related Writings (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1992), p. 102.
On this fragment, D.C. Parker, D.G.K. Taylor, and M.S. Goodacre state: "It may therefore be concluded that the parchment was produced at some point between the second part of the second century and the building of the embankment [c.
The bulk of evidence is strongly against the fragment's being a part of Tatian's Diatessaron." (op.
The authors state: "We conclude that 0212 was originally composed in Greek, probably in the latter part of the second century.
Since it came from the Fayum in Egypt it is sometimes known as the Fayum Fragment.
From hte handwriting it is judged to belong to the last decades of the third century.
But here also a secondary, indeed an abridged, rendering of the synoptic material has to be assumed, and the text must be considered an excerpt or fragment of a gospel hitherto unknown to us.
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