Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 is a fragment of a Greek Septuagint manuscript written on parchment. The manuscript was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, modern El-Bahnasa, Egypt. Using the study of comparative writing styles, the manuscript has been dated to the 3rd century CE.

Description

The manuscript is a codex, containing sections of the Book of Genesis written in 33 lines in 2 columns. This manuscript contains the name of God "abbreviated by doubling the initial yod, written in the shape of a z with a horizontal line through the middle, and carried unbroken through both characters zz." The fragment is difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible front side it contains the nomen sacrum in Gen 2:18, and the name of God written in Hebrew with a double Yodh.
Alan Mugridge states regarding LXX and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656:

The manuscript was published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, part VII, edited and translated by Arthur S. Hunt, London, 1910, pages 1 and 2. It was catalogued with the number 907 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint as classified by Alfred Rahlfs, and also signed as Van Haelst 5. It is given the identification 3113 on the
Leuven Database of Ancient Books.

The manuscript is located in the department of manuscripts in the British Library, London.