Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998) 97-101
BOOK REVIEWS
Panagiota Sarischouli, ed., Berliner Griechische Papyri. Christliche
literarische Texte und Urkunden aus dem 3. bis 8. Jh. n. Chr.,
Wiesbaden 1995 (Serta Graeca; Band 3), Verlag Dr. Ludwig
Reichert; x + 217 pp, 16 plates, ISBN 3-88226-824-7.
This volume presents the publication of 23 literary and documentary texts edited by Sarischouli (S.) as a dissertation at the
Free University of Berlin in 1993/4. All the texts come from the
Papyrussammlung des Aegyptischen Museums Berlin and the
association of W. Brashear with the work as supervisor is a
guarantee of its quality. The editorial standard is very high as is
the quality of the discussion in the introductions and notes to the
texts themselves. S. has an impressive familiarity with the Coptic
as well as the Greek background to the texts which she presents.
although, as one often finds with a work originating in a thesis, she
tends sometimes to go for the bibliographical overkill. The
publisher-a name which is not otherwise known to me-has done an
excellent job in setting a difficult text.
The literary texts, 1-9, are all Christian, and all hitherto
unknown with the exception of 9 (Hermas, Vis. III 6.4, 6.6). The
texts are as follows:
a) Unbekannte Texte
1. Zwei christliche Texte. Remains of a leaf from a codex with
part of two different works in the same bookhand, dated by S. to
A.D. iv/v; it is difficult to be precise, but perhaps the earlier end of
that spectrum? Mention is made of the denial of Peter and the
resurrection of Christ.
2. Christliches Gebet mit Akklamationen. Again from a codex,
also in a bookhand of A.D. iv/v. Christ is hailed as navToKp&dop, etc
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