Papyrus 78

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁸
New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries

Name	P. Oxy. 2684
Text	Jude †
Date	3rd / 4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, P. Parsons, and J. Rea, OP XXXIV (1968), pp. 4-6.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 78 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁸, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of Jude. The surviving texts of Jude are verses 4-5 & 7-8. $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁸ is written in an elegant hand. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the 3rd century (or 4th century).^[1]

Description

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁸ displays a free text.^[2] Aland placed it in Category I (because of its date).^[1]

Present location

It is currently housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy. 2684) in Oxford.^[1]^[3]

Textual variants

v5: Addition of αδελφοι (brothers) after βουλομαι (I plan).
v7: υπεχουσαι (undergoing) becomes επεχουσαι (holding fast to).
v8: ουτοι (these) becomes αυτοι (themselves).
v8: δοξας (plural: glories) becomes δοξαν (singular: glory).

References

1 2 3 Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
↑ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Images

P. Oxy. 2684 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
Papyrus 78 recto
Papyrus 78 verso

External links

Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁸.

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