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[[File:POxy n3522.jpg|thumb|300px|Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522]]
The '''Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522''', (signed as '''P.Oxy.L 3522'''; '''Rahlfs 857'''; '''LDAB 3079''') – is a small fragment of the Greek [[Septuagint]] (LXX) written in papyrus, in [[scroll]] form. As one of the manuscripts discovered at [[Oxyrhynchus]] it has been catalogued with the number 3522. [[Palaeographically]] it has been dated to the 1st century CE. The text agrees with the LXX.<ref name="Oxford"/>

== Description ==

This fragment contains [[Book of Job|Job]] 42,11-12.<ref name=Heb/>

=== Version ===

[[Peter J. Parsons]] claim that its text "stands closer to the LXX rather than the literal accurate version of [[Symmachus (translator)|Symmachus]]."<ref name="Oxford">{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint|series=Oxford Handbooks|editor1=Alison G. Salvesen|editor2=Timothy Michael Law|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2021|isbn=9780191644009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnEWEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA138}}</ref><ref>Michael P. Theophilos. [http://www.mst.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Theophilos-Michael-P.-Recently-Discovered-Papyri-and-Parchment-of-the-Psalter.pdf ''Recently Discovered Greek Papyri and Parchment of the Psalter from the Oxford Oxyrhynchus Manuscripts: Implications for Scribal Practice and Textual Transmission''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314125308/http://www.mst.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Theophilos-Michael-P.-Recently-Discovered-Papyri-and-Parchment-of-the-Psalter.pdf |date=2019-03-14 }}. Australian Catholic University.</ref>

=== Tetragrammaton ===

This manuscript includes the [[tetragrammaton]] (written from right to left) in [[Paleo-Hebrew alphabet|paleo-Hebrew]].<ref name=Heb>{{Cite book|author=Emanuel Tov|author-link=Emanuel Tov|title=Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible|editor=Uitgeverij Van Gorcum|year=2001|publisher=Fortress Press; Assen: Royal Van Gorcum|location=Minneapolis|isbn=0-8006-3429-2|page=220|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U1UfMyO-RiEC&pg=PA222}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Alan K. Bowman|author-link=Alan K. Bowman|title=The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part L|publisher=The British Academy & The Egypt Exploration Fund|location=London|year=1983|pages=1–3}}</ref><ref name = Comfort>{{cite book|title=Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism|author=Philip Wesley Comfort|publisher=B&H Publishing Group|year=2005|isbn=9780805431452|pages=208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-q8xpqveREC&pg=PA208}}</ref> [[Frank E. Shaw]] states:

{{quote|With the publication of ''P.Oxy. 3522'', a Jewish scroll fragment containing two verses of Job 42 from the early first century CE, we are in a better position to judge the first of [[Albert Pietersma|Pietersma]]'s points. According to the MS's editor P. J. Parsons it is not part of any Hebraized recension in spite of the fact that it 'sports' two instances of a paleo-Hebrew tetragram.  Evidently, [[Emanuel Tov|Tov]] concurs with Parson's assessment. Such a nonHebraized LXX MS that contains paleo-Hebrew tetragrams is a second example of a Handschrift than does not fit Pietersma's paradigm.{{sfn|Shaw|2014|pp=135-136}}}}

=== Text ===

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'''Text according to A. R. Meyer:'''<br>
κ]αι εθαυμασαν οσα επ[ηγα<br>
γε]ν ο 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 επαυτον εδ[ωκε<br>
δε ]αυτω εκαστος αμναδα μι<br>
αν] και τετραχμον χρυσουν<br>
α]σημον ο δε 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 ευλογη<br>
σ]εν τα εσχατα ϊωβ η τα [εμ<br>
π]ροσθεν ην δε τα κτ[ηνη<br>
αυτου προβα]τα μυρια[ τε <ref name="Meyer2017">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190726152856/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/247d/ccc95c5575844bd7c2f2bf07aae65939aba8.pdf Anthony R. Meyer, ''The Divine Name in Early Judaism: Use and Non-Use in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek'' (McMaster University, 2017)]</ref>{{rp|232}}
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'''Romanization of Meyer:'''<br>
''k'']ai ethaumasan osa ep[''ēga''<br>
''ge'']n ho 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 epauton ed[''ōke''<br>
''de'' ]autō ekastos amnada mi<br>
''an''] kai tetrachmon chrysoun<br>
''a'']sēmon ho de 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 eulogē<br>
''s'']en ta eschata Ïōb hē ta [''em''<br>
''p'']rosthen ēn de ta kt[''ēnē''<br>
''autou proba'']ta myria[ ''te'' 
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'''NIV translation:'''<br>
They comforted and consoled him over all the<br>
trouble the LORD had brought on him,<br>
and each one gave him<br>
a piece of silver and a gold ring.<br>
The LORD blessed<br>
the latter part of Job’s life<br>
more than the former part.<br>
He had [''fourteen''] thousand sheep…<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/JOB+42.html|title=Bible Gateway Job 42 :: NIV|website=web.mit.edu}}</ref>
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== History ==

The fragment was published in 1983 by [[Peter J. Parsons|P. J. Parsons]] in ''The Oxyrhynchus Papyri'', vol. L (50). Also the fragment is catalogued with number 857 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as the classification of [[Alfred Rahlfs]], also as LDAB 3079.<ref name=Art>{{Cite book|author=Larry W. Hurtado|author-link=Larry W. Hurtado|title=The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins|url=https://archive.org/details/earliestchristia00hurt|url-access=limited|year=2006|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.|location=Sheffield|isbn=0-8028-2895-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/earliestchristia00hurt/page/n227 213]}}</ref>

== Location ==

The manuscript is kept in the Papyrology department of the [[Ashmolean Museum|Sackler library]] in [[Oxford]] as (P.Oxy.L 3522): Papyrology Rooms, Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library, Oxford.{{sfn|Oxford Papyrology|2022}}

== See also ==

{{Portal|Bible}}
* [[Papyrus Fouad 266]]
* [[Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 1007]]
* [[Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 5101]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Bibliography ==

* {{cite web|url=http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-3522--00031-001-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=search&d=HASH51565e335e05dd8d0d3017 |title= P.Oxy.L 3522 |work= Oxyrhynchus Online|author= P. J. Parsons |access-date=April 21, 2012|publisher=The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. L}}
* {{cite book|last=Parsons|first=P. J.|date=1983|chapter=3522. LXX Job 42:11–12.|pages=1–3|title=Papyrus Oxyrhynchus L|location=London|publisher=Egypt Exploration Society}}
* {{cite book|last=Shaw|first=Frank E.|date=2014|title=The Earliest Non-mystical Jewish Use of Iαω|series=Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology|volume=70|location=Lovaina|publisher=Peeters|isbn=978-90-429-2978-4|oclc=1044478987}}

== External links ==

* [http://163.1.169.40/gsdl/collect/POxy/index/assoc/HASH5156/5e335e05.dir/POxy.v0050.n3522.a.01.hires.jpg Picture of P. LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812062414/http://163.1.169.40/gsdl/collect/POxy/index/assoc/HASH5156/5e335e05.dir/POxy.v0050.n3522.a.01.hires.jpg |date=2014-08-12 }}
*{{cite web|last=Oxford Papyrology|date=2022|title=P.Oxy. L 3522. LXX Job 42:11-12|location=University of Oxford|publisher=Online resource|doi=10.25446/oxford.21173953.v2 |url=https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_L_3522_LXX_Job_42_11-12/21173953}}


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