Auf der Tagung der Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis Ende 1968 berichtete Irving A. Sparks/Claremont über die Entdeckung eines neuen Unzialfragments. Im Journal of Biblical Literature LVIII (1969), 201–2 veröoffentlichte er dann einen Bericht darüber mit näheren Angaben zum Fragment und mit einem Textabdruck. Danach handelt es sich dabei um einen schmalen Streifen, der bei l 852 (Sinai, Katharinenkloster Gr. 218) zwischen fol. 176 und 177 in den Bund geklebt ist und bei einer kollation von 11852 im Zusammenhang mit den Arbeiten für das International Project entdeckt wurde. Sparks beschreibt das Fragment folgendermaßen:

Recent analyses of the Prologue of John have to a large degree centred around two questions, (1) the question of poetic and prose forms of styles, and (2) the question of unity or disunity of thought, both within the Prologue itself and between the Prologue and the rest of the Gospel. Several scholars, such as R. Bultmann, E. Käsemann, R. Schnackenburg and R. E. Brown, have reached the conclusion that the Evangelist has used and partly reshaped and supplemented a hymn.1 This hyposthesis has drawn criticism from scholars who stress that this distinction between poetry and prose is impossible to maintain. Thus E. Haenchen and W. Eltester have characterized the style as hymnic prose.

It is said that Jesus’ comments (Matt. xv. 4_6, Mark vii. 9_13) are unfair, or incompetently reported.2 It is desirable to clarify the practice and the law to which he referred.

Mark and Acts disagree, sometimes quite sharply, about Jesus' career, his teaching, and the faith of the young Church.