Josep O’Callaghan Martínez

Josep O’Callaghan Martínez

Dr. Josep O´Callaghan Martínez (October 7, 1922 - December 15, 2001) was a Roman Catholic priest and Spanish scholar of papyrus and paleography, especially well known for his identification of the 7Q5 papyrus of Qumran with a text of Mark 6, 52-53.

Born in Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain in 1922, he joined the Jesuits on October 29, 1940. He was ordained on May 31, 1952. Bachellor in Theology from the S. Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona in 1953, Doctor in Philosophy and Literature from the Universidad de Madrid in 1959, Doctor in Classic Literature from the Università di Milano in 1960. He was professor of the Faculty of Theology of S. Cugat del Vallés (1961 - 1971), Barcelona, where he founded the "School of Papyri Studies" ("Seminario de Papirología"). In 1971 he joined the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome (1971 - 1992). In 1980 he returned to Barcelona as professor of Textual reviews with Dr. R.P. Pierre Proulx. He was dean of the Biblical Faculty (1983 - 1986). He founded the Studia Papirologica publication. He died in December 15, 2001.

7Q5

Dr. O'Callaghan became famous for his identification of a small scrap of papyrus discovered in Cave 7 of Qumran named by the editors as "7Q5" ("Cave 7 + Qumran + Papyrus 5"). It was stated before his identification (and by some since) that there were no texts of the New Testament found in the caves of the Qumran complex. Claims that the caves of the Dead Sea could hold documents of the early Christian communities were held as naïve and even absurd.

Dr. O'Callaghan did not set out to look for papyri of the New Testament at Qumran, but his interest was identification of the fragments that the editors could not fully clarify. More than a dozen years after certain scraps were printed, it dawned on O'Callaghan that certain of the clear and identifiable letters on them might be part of the occasional New Testament name for the sea of Galilee, the Sea of Genneseret. Hitherto it had been assumed that such letters were part of the Greek word for "to beget," yet no one had been able to find any piece of ancient literature which fit with this identification of the letters and the surrounding necessary context of other letters. [Estrada, David and White, Jr., William: The First New Testament, Nashville/Thomas Nelson Inc. 1978, ISBN 0-8407-5121-4.]

The results of his work with the small fragment brought him to the conclusion that 7Q5 could be a fragment of the Gospel of Mark and he published his investigation in 1972 in his work "¿Papiros neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrân?" (New Testament Papyri in Cave 7 at Qumran?). The reaction of scholars, especially those committed to the conventional wisdom of how the Bible became formulated, was almost universally against Dr. O'Callaghan. His identification was viewed as an almost impossible claim since the papyrus itself had been dated prior to the identification as having been written no later than 50 CE, much earlier than scholars thought the New Testament had been written. The Catalan scholar's career was frustrated and he was practically isolated until 1982 when Prof.Carsten Peter Thiede reviewed the researches of O'Callaghan. Thiede came to the conclusion that O'Callaghan's proposals were not illogical and his scientific method was serious and possible. Thiede revived the discussion again in his work "The Earliest Gospel Manuscript?" 1982. However, even today the majority of papyrus scholars disagree with the O'Callaghan conclusions even though no more likely theory has ever been promulgated by anyone.

Works

* Las tres categorías estéticas de la cultura clásica, Madrid, 1960, 288 pgs.
* Cartas cristianas griegas del siglo V, Barcelon, 1963, 251 pgs.
* Studia Papirologica.
* ¿Papiro neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrán? Biblica, 1972. Roma. pp. 91-100
* Notas sobre 7Q tomadas en el "Rockefeller Museum" de Jerusalén. Biblica, 1972. Roma. Pp. 517-536

Notes

See also

* Qumran
* 7Q5

External links

* [http://www.egipte.org/wordpress/?page_id=608 Biography at egipte.org] ca


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