Carsten Peter Thiede

Prof. Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede (8 August 1952 West Berlin - 14 December 2004) was a German biblical scholar from the 20th century, best known for his textual criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the hopeful identification of the 7Q5 papyrus as a fragment of the Gospel of Mark. Thiede was an advocate for O'Callaghan's claims that numerous portions of the Qumran scrolls from Cave 7 are actually Christian New Testament texts from pre AD 70. The adduced texts are very fragmentary and ambiguous, and mainstream scholars have not agreed.

In December 1994, Thiede's redating of the Magdalen papyrus, which bears a fragment in Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, to the later 1st century on palaeographical grounds provoked much debate.

In The Quest for the True Cross, Thiede argues that the Titulus Crucis was truly part of Jesus' cross written by a Jewish scribe used to writing right to left. He cites that the order of the languages match what is historically accurate and not the order shown in the Bible.

English bibliography

* The Heritage of the First Christians (1994) ISBN 0745925448
* Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth (1996) ISBN 1563381362
* Jesus: Life or Legend (2001) ISBN 0745938957
* The Dead Sea Scrolls (2001) ISBN 0745950507
* The Quest for the True Cross (2002) ISBN 0312294247
* The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity (2003) ISBN 1403961433

External link

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity, 2003, ISBN 1403961433
*Critical review of Thiede's Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel, 1995: a collection of Thiede's articles