Hi,
A bit more on Hermas before Barnabas.
Tischendorf only had the first section of Hermas published, about 1/4 of the text. We discussed some of the similarities with the Simonides Hermas publication, and the concerns from James Donaldson about the section that was published, above, where he felt there was medieval Latin influence.
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The New Finds, discovered in 1975, has two sections that particularly interest us:
Fragments from leaves from two parts of Sinaiticus:
a) fragments of Genesis 21 to 23, clearly connected to the cut-up machinations of Tischendorf and Uspensky, based on their having neighboring fragments. (To add to the mystery, Simonides had made specific acrostic claims on the Genesis 24 section, a chapter from which a fragment remains in Russia.)
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Genesis New Finds folio, two pages.
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
Move forward for parts earlier brought to Russia.
For extra perplexity, try to relate this Uspenksy section
http://www.nlr.ru/eng/exib/CodexSinaiticus/cs1.html#2
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Hermas from New Finds
b) one leaf toward the ending of Hermas, 4 pages, with about half the text on those pages.
Quire 95 - Folio 1r&v
Quire 95 - Folio 8r&v
Move forward from:
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
(I have not identified the partial leaf mentioned below, Hermas, Similitudes 6.5.5-66.6 on the site.)
Thus, we have very strong circumstantial evidence that more of Hermas had been there when Tischendorf first started to work with the ms. The Genesis fragments that got to the New Finds are closely linked to Tischendorf and Uspensky manuscript "takes". It is a solid supposition that the Hermas sections got there at the same time, in the 1844-1859 mystery period. (And I've asked my Russian scholar friend to look at the Uspensky reference to see exactly what he said about Barnabas and Hermas.)
Why would the rest of Hermas have been dumped?
One possibility: Remember, the Simonides Hermas was accused of being a medieval Latinized text, by Tischendorf. If the rest of Hermas had been more clearly Latinized, and close to the Simonides published Hermas, then it would have been impossible to maintain that the Athos-Lipsiensis text published by Simonides was all a great coincidence. This would be very embarrassing to the Tischendorf antiquity authenticity claims.
Anyway, there is enough text there at the end of Hermas that it could be studied linguistically, and in comparison to the Simondes published text. Afawk, no such research has been done.
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New Finds
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/t ... cting.aspx
The careful study of all the new fragments reveals that there are nineteen leaves wholly or partially extant, along with a few tiny fragments in which the text cannot be identified. They contain portions of Genesis (a leaf consisting of parts of eight columns containing 21.26-22.17 and 22.21-23.16), a whole leaf (Leviticus 20.27-22.30), a sequence of complete leaves from Numbers (16.7-26.2), a mutilated leaf which has parts of Deuteronomy 3.8-4.21 and a complete leaf with Deuteronomy 28.68-30.16; another mutilated leaf with Joshua 12.2-13.16, a tiny fragment with Judges 2.20 on one side and 4.6 on the other, and then a sequence of five complete leaves containing Judges 4.7-11.2; Finally in the Old Testament, there are scraps of a leaf which contains parts of 1 Chronicles 17.14-18.11. There are fragments of a leaf containing parts of Hermas, Similitudes 6.5.5-66.6, and a complete leaf with IX.14.4-18.5.
There are other fragments found in the nineteenth century and now in St Petersburg. The ones which concern us here consist of a part of a leaf now preserving Genesis 23.19-24.19 and 24.20-24.46; another partial leaf now with Numbers 5.26-6.18, 22-7.20.
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11/19/2014 - additional post on this topic
Hermas in the New Finds - Uspensky reference
viewtopic.php?p=23263#p23263
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Here is the last page of the New Finds Sinaiticus
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscrip ... omSlider=0
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Steven Avery