Welcome to Dan's world of seminary nerdiness! To the left is a picture of a mid-second century (~150 AD) manuscript of the gospel of John (1:1-14) that I just finished translating for my New Testament Canon class. For those of you not familiar, the language is Greek and this is a fragment that was copied by a scribe. For those of you who have studied New Testament Greek, you'll notice that it is written in scriptio continua which means that there are no spaces between words and that all of the text is in capital letters. Needless to say this makes it a little more difficult that reading from a regular Greek New Testament.
However, it was fun doing it...and it is a lot of fun being such a nerd!
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