Uncial 0162

New Testament manuscripts
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Uncial 0162
Name Pap. Oxy. 847
Text John 2:11-22
Date c. 300
Script Greek
Found Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cite Grenfell and Hunt Oxyrhynchus Papyri VI, 4-5
Size 1 vellum leaf; 16 x 15 cm; 20 lines/page
Type Alexandrian
Category I
Note very close to P66, P75, B

Codex 0162 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 023 (Soden), is one vellum leaf of the late third century (or early 4th century) Greek codex containing John.

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Description

It is one of the manuscripts excavated by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrynchus, Egypt and is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in New York City.

Codex 0162 measures 16 cm by 15 cm from a page of 20 lines.[1] Probably it was written by professional scribe.[2] The nomina sacra are contracted: ΙΗΣ ΙΣ ΠΡΣ.

Formerly it was assigned to the 4th century,[1] but Comfort argued that his small omicron belongs rather to the 3rd than 4th century.[2]

The readings of the codex are very close to Papyrus 66 (P66), Papyrus 75 (P75) and Codex Vaticanus (B).[2] It is closer to Vaticanus than Sianiticus.

It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece.[3] NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age."[4]

The text was first published by Grenfell and Hunt in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri in 1908.[5]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th century.[1][6]

See also

Other early uncials
Related articles

References

Grenfell and Hunt
  1. ^ a b c Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 104, 123. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  2. ^ a b c Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 683. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9. 
  3. ^ Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001), 58.
  4. ^ Ibid.
  5. ^ Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt and others, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 66 volumes to date, (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1898—), 6:4-5.
  6. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 21 April 2011. 

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