Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3522

The Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522, (signed as P.Oxy.L 3522: Rahlfs 857) – is a small fragment of the Greek Septuagint (LXX) written on papyrus. It is a scroll. This manuscript was discovered at Oxyrhynchus, about  south of Cairo. It has been catalogued with the number 3522. Palaeographically it has been dated to the 1st century CE.

 Description 

This fragment contains Job 42,11-12, and the tetragrammaton in paleo-Hebrew (15px15px15px15px). According to Philip Wesley Comfort, YHWH was written from right to left.

 Greek text 

Greek text according to A. R. Meyer:

κ]αι εθαυμασαν οσα επ[ηγα
γε]ν ο 10px10px10px10px επαυτον εδ[ωκε
δε ]αυτω εκαστος αμναδα μι
αν] και τετραχμον χρυσουν
α]σημον ο δε 10px10px10px10px ευλογη
σ]εν τα εσχατα ϊωβ η τα [εμ
π]ροσθεν ην δε τα κτ[ηνη
αυτου προβα]τα μυρια[ τε 

 Location 

The manuscript is kept in the Papyrology department of the Sackler library in Oxford as (P.Oxy.L 3522).

 References 

Category:1st-century BC biblical manuscripts
Category:Septuagint manuscripts