Papyrus Schøyen 2648

The leaves measure 20 × 11 cm and are inscribed in single columns of 19 to 25 lines each with Alexandrian majuscules. They were probably part of a codex of the Book of Joshua comprising about 72 leaves.{{sfn|De Troyer|2006|pp=105}} The leaves are the oldest surviving evidence of these passages in Greek and represent an older textual variant before Origen's Hexapla. It also differs from the later Masoretic text.

The manuscript does not have verses 15, 17 and 43 of chapter 10 as do other ancient Greek manuscripts that match the Hebrew text.{{sfn|De Troyer|2006|pp=115}}

Kristin De Troyer states:

{{quote|The texts of papyrus Schøyen MS 2648 (a Joshua codex) and MS 2649 (a Leviticus codex) belong to the Old Greek text tradition of the books of Joshua and Leviticus. But both codices attest not purely to the Old Greek text, but to an already slightly altered text. The Old Greek text of the two codices was already revised towards a Hebrew text, most often the Masoretic text. The two papyri are thus not witnesses for the Old Greek text as it left the hands of the first translators, but for an Old Greek text that was beginning to be revised towards the Hebrew text.{{sfn|De Troyer|2011|pp=29}}}}

The manuscript probably originated at Oxyrhynchos. It was probably written by the same scribe as Papyrus Schøyen 2649. Around 1930, the leaves were acquired in Alexandria from an antique dealer by a collector from Zurich. In 1998, the Schøyen Collection in Oslo bought them, signature MS 2648. The leaves were in the midst of Papyrus Schøyen 2650.

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• {{cite book|first=Kristin|last=De Troyer|chapter=23. LXX, Joshua (MS 2648)|editor-first=Rosario|editor-last=Pintaudi|title=Papyri Graecae Schøyen (PSchøyen I)|series=Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection. V: Greek papyri. Vol I. / Papyrologica Florentina|volume=5|publisher=Edizioni Gonelli|location=Florenz|date=2005|isbn=88-74-68026-0|pages=81–145}}
• {{cite book|first=Kristin|last=De Troyer|chapter=Reconstructing the OG of Joshua|editor-first1=Wolfgang|editor-last1=Kraus|editor-first2=R. Glenn|editor-last2=Wooden|title=Septuagint Research. Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures|series=Septuagint and Cognate Studies|volume=53|publisher=Society of Biblical Literature|location=Atlanta|date=2006|isbn=978-1-58983-204-6|pages=105–118}}
• {{cite journal|last=De Troyer|first=Kristin|title=From Leviticus to Joshua: The Old Greek Text in Light of Two Septuagint Manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection|date=2011-05-06|journal=Journal of Ancient Judaism|publisher=Brill|volume=2|number=1|pages=29–78|doi=10.30965/21967954-00201002}}
• {{cite book|first1=Alfred|last1=Rahlfs|first2=Detlef|last2=Fraenkel|title=Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Band I,1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert|series=Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Supplementum|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|location=Göttingen|date=2003|pages=272}}
• {{cite web|title=MS 2648|url=https://www.schoyencollection.com/bible-collection-foreword/greek-new-testament-septuagint/greek-bible-joshua-ms-2648|publisher=The Schøyen Collection|access-date=2023-10-13}}
• {{cite web|title=P.Schøyen 1 23 = Trismegistos 66869 = LDAB 8119|url=http://dclp.github.io/dclpxsltbox/output/dclp/67/66869.html|access-date=2023-10-13|publisher=DCLP/Trismegistos}}
• {{cite web|title=TM 66869 / LDAB 8119|access-date=2023-10-13|url=https://www.trismegistos.org/tm/detail.php?tm=66869|publisher=Trismegistos Texts}}
• {{cite book|last=Van Der Meer|first=Michaël N.|chapter=Provenance, Profile, and Purpose of the Greek Joshua|title=XII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Leiden, 2004|volume=54|series=SBL - Septuagint and Cognate Studies|editor-first=Melvin|editor-last=Peters|publisher=BRILL|date=2006|isbn=9789047409557|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZoZSEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA55}}

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