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Title: Grenfell and Hunt on the Dates of Early Christian Codices
Subtitle: Setting the Record Straight
Author(s): NONGBRI, Brent
Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume: 48    Date: 2011   
Pages: 149-162
DOI: 10.2143/BASP.48.0.3209296

Abstract :
Since the middle of the twentieth century, there has been a tendency among scholars to marginalize the palaeographical opinions of Grenfell and Hunt. Their alleged belief that the codex format was a post-third century development is said to have induced them to date fragments of Chrstian codices much later than they would have on strictly palaeographical grounds. I argue that this is a serious misrepresentation of their views and practices.

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