Papyrus 106

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 106 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. LXIV 4445
text	John 1 : 29-35; 1.40-46
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Sackler Library
source	WEH Cockle, OP LXIV (1997), pp. 11-14
size	13 x 8.8 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	no

Papyrus 106 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ¹⁰⁶ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

description

The fragment comes from an ancient garbage dump in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt . It hardly ever rains there, which is why these fragments have been preserved. This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John contains only verses 1.29-35; 1.40-46. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography .

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type and is therefore close to ⁶⁶ , ⁷⁵ , Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Repository

The manuscript is currently in the Sackler Library under the call number P. Oxy. 4445 kept at Oxford .

Individual evidence

1. ^ INTF , list of manuscripts
2. ^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 75.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri

literature

• WEH Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXV (London: 1998), pp. 11-14.
• Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John , Biblica 85 (2004), p. 403.

Web links

Illustrations

• P.Oxy. LXIV 4445 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁰⁶ recto
• ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁰⁶ verso

Official registration

• "Continuation of the list of manuscripts" Institute for New Testament Text Research , University of Münster . (PDF file; 147 kB)