When pressed for more information, Wallace refrained from saying anything new. The manuscript, Wallace claimed, was to be published later that year in a book from Brill, an academic publisher that has since begun publishing items in the Museum of the Bible collection.
He had no apologetic motive for assigning the early date. This preeminent authority was not an evangelical Christian, either. Ehrman, Wallace reported that a fragment of Mark’s gospel, dated to the first century, had been discovered.Īs unlikely as a first-century Gospel manuscript is, the fragment was allegedly dated by a world-class specialist. Wallace, senior research professor of New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, seemed to confirm Carroll’s statement. In late 2011, manuscript scholar Scott Carroll-then working for what would become the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.- tweeted the tantalizing announcement that the earliest-known manuscript of the New Testament was no longer the second-century John Rylands papyrus (P52).
The reason stems from the unusual way that this manuscript became famous before it became available. One might expect happiness at such a publication, but this important fragment actually disappointed many observers. The Egypt Exploration Society has recently published a Greek papyrus that is likely the earliest fragment of the Gospel of Mark, dating it from between A.D.
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