Papyrus 108

Papyrus 108

New Testament manuscript

Name P. Oxy. 4447
Sign \mathfrak{P}108
Text Gospel of John 17:23-24; 18:1-5
Date 2nd / 3rd century
Script Greek
Found Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at Sackler Library
Cite W. E. H. Cockle, OP LXV (1998), pp. 16-18
Size 10.5 x 6.2 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Note concurs with א

Papyrus 108 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by \mathfrak{P}108, is an early copy of a part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving texts of John are verses 17:23-24; 18:1-5, they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. The manuscripts, though small, concurs with Codex Sinaiticus.[1] It has itacistic error in John 17:23 (γεινωσκη instead of γινωσκη).[2]

Location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Papyrology Rooms, of the Sackler Library at Oxford University with the shelf number P. Oxy. 4447.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.
  2. ↑ Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), p. 403.
  3. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

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