Papyrus 39

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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Papyrus {\mathfrak {P}}39
Name P. Oxy. 1780
Text John 8 †
Date 3rd century
Script Greek
Found Egypt
Now at The Green Collection
Cite Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV, 1922, pp. 7-8.
Size 26 by 16 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category I

Papyrus 39 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by {\mathfrak {P}}39, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only John 8:14-22. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century. Written by professional scribe, in 25 lines per page, in large, beautiful letters. It has numbered pages.[1]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.[2] {\mathfrak {P}}39 shows agreement with Vaticanus and {\mathfrak {P}}.[1] There are no singular readings.[3]

Guglielmo Cavallo published its facsimile in 1967.[4]

The manuscript now resides in the The Green Collection and is featured in its worldwide-traveling exhibition, Passages.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9. 
  2. ↑ 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. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  3. ↑ Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 399-408.
  4. ↑ G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl. 27.

Further reading

External links

Grenfell and Hunt
Bernard Grenfell
Arthur Hunt

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