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Dura Parchment 24, designated as Uncial 0212 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The manuscript has been assigned to the 3rd century, palaeographically, though an earlier date cannot be excluded. It contains some unusual orthographic features, which have been found nowhere else. It is possibly the only surviving manuscript of the Greek Diatessaron, unless Papyrus 25 is also a witness to that work. The text of the fragment was reconstructed by Kraeling and Welles. Dura Parchment 24 is currently housed at Yale University (P. Dura 24), New Haven catalogued there as Dura Parch. 10. == History of the manuscript == On March 5, 1933, during the excavations conducted by Clark Hopkins amongst the ruins of a Roman border-town, Dura-Europos, on the lower Euphrates, under the embankment which filled in the street inside the wall and also covered the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue, the parchment fragment now known as Dura Parchment 24 was found. Susan Hopkins was the first to recognize it as a portion of the Gospel.〔D. Plooij, ''A Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek'', The Expository Times, Vol. 46, No. 10, p. 471 (1935)〕〔 "...in one of the baskets of finds from the embankment, behind (west of) Block L8 and not far from Tower 18".〕 The fragment was examined by Carl H. Kraeling, who published its text in 1935, with an extensive discussion. Kraeling concluded that the fragment was a copy of Tatian's Diatessaron.〔Kraeling, Carl H., (''A Greek Fragment of Tatians's Diatessaron from Dura'' ). ''S & D'' 3 (London, 1935)〕 It was re-edited, with a minor corrections, by C. Bradford Welles in 1959.〔C. Badford Welles, and others, ''The Parchments and Papyri'', volume 5, (New Haven, 1959), pp. 23-24〕 According to Plooij "There is no reasonable doubt that the fragment is really Tatian".〔Plooij, D., ''A Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek'', The Expository Times, Vol. 46, No. 10, p. 472 (1935)〕 According to Parker, Taylor, and Goodacre it is another harmony of the four Gospels, different to Diatessaron, and much closer to the text of the Gospels.〔D. C. Parker, D. G. K Taylor and M. S. Goodacre, ''The Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony'', in: D. G. K. Taylor, ''Studies in the Early Text of the Gospels and Acts'', SBL Text-Critical Studies 1 (Atlanta, GA 1999), pp. 192-228.〕 Jan Joosten criticised the methods employed by Taylor, Goodacre, and Parker, according to him, these methods would have eliminated many other Tatianic witnesses because of diversity and variability in these witnesses. Dura Parchment does not constitute evidence of non-Diatessaronic composition.〔(Tatian's Diatessaron )〕 The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1953.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dura Parchment 24」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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