Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007

[1] 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.

"[2][3] The fragment is difficult to identify as either Christian or Jewish, as on the barely legible front side it contains the nomen sacrum ΘΣ (characteristic of Christian manuscripts) in Gen 2:18, and the name of God written in Hebrew with a double Yodh (characteristic of Jewish manuscripts).

[4] Alan Mugridge states regarding LXXP.Oxy.VII.1007 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656: "It has been suggested that two OT papyri, listed here as Christian, are actually Jewish.

"[5]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.