New Testament amulet

A New Testament amulet (also called a talisman) is an ancient hand-written portion of the New Testament, commonly worn as a charm. The Lord's Prayer is the most common text found on amulets. Also commonly found are the opening verses of each of the four New Testament gospels.

The numbering system begun by Ernst von Dobschütz for New Testament Greek Amulets assigned each recovered Amulet a Blackletter character 𝔗 (indicating Talisman) followed by a superscript number. Von Dobschütz continued the list through 𝔗⁹. The additional numbers assigned below continue this numbering in the order suggested by Brice C. Jones.

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List of New Testament Amulets

See also

Other lists of New Testament manuscripts

• List of New Testament papyri
• List of New Testament uncials
• List of New Testament minuscules
• List of New Testament lectionaries
• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• List of New Testament Church Fathers
• List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts

Other articles

• List of Egyptian papyri by date
• Novum Testamentum Graece
• Palaeography
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

• T.S. de Bruyn & H.F. Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011) 163–216.
• Peter Head, ‘Additional Greek Witnesses to the New Testament (Ostraca, Amulets, Inscriptions, and Other Sources)’ in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition (eds M.W. Holmes & B.D. Ehrman; NTTSD 42; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012), 429–460.
• Brice C. Jones, New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism, April 2015.

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