Papyrus 115

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 115 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
The red arrow points to χιϛ (616), the “number of the beast” in 115 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. LXVI 4499
text	Rev 2-3, 5-6, 8-15
date	approx. 275
Found	Oxyrhynchus , Egypt
Storage location	Ashmolean Museum
source	Juan Chapa, Oxyrynchus Papyri 66: 11-39. (# 4499)
size	26 fragments; 15.5 x 23.5 cm; 33-36 lines / page
Type	Alexandine , closely related to A and C
category	I.
note	“The number of the beast” is 616

Papyrus 115 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ¹¹⁵ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt discovered the papyrus in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. As part of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri , it bears the number P. Oxy. 4499. This papyrus manuscript consists of 12 fragments of a code of revelation . Using palaeography , it was dated to the middle of the third century, around AD 225–275. The Institute for New Testament Text Research gives 3.–4. Century on. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

description

The original codex had 33-36 lines per page measuring 15.5 cm by 23.5 cm. The following verses have survived from the text of Revelation: 2,1-3, 13-15, 27-29; 3.10-12; 5.8-9; 6.5-6; 8.3-8, 11-13; 9.1-5, 7-16, 18-21; 10.1-4, 8-11; 11,1-5, 8-15, 18-19; 12,1-5, 8-10, 12-17; 13,1-3, 6-16, 18; 14.1-3, 5-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-20; 15.1, 4-7.

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Kurt Aland placed it in Category I a. ¹¹⁵ follows the text of the Codex Alexandrinus ( A ) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus ( C ). ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

A special feature of the text is the number of the animal , which is given instead of the usual 666 (chi, xi, stigma (ΧΞϚ)) with 616 ( chi , iota , stigma (ΧΙϚ)).

This particular manuscript was not studied and published until the end of the twentieth century. It is currently in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Chapa, Oxy. Pap., 66: 11-39, no.4499
2. ↑ ¹¹⁵ in the database of the Institute for New Testament Text Research ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
3. Jump up ↑ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts , (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated , 2001), pp. 664-677.
4. ^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 77.

See also

• Oxyrhynchus papyri
• List of New Testament papyri

literature

• Juan Chapa, Oxyrynchus Papyri 66: 11-39. (no. 4499).
• Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts , (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001), pp. 664-677.
• David C. Parker, A new Oxyrhynchus Papyrus of Revelation: P115 (P. Oxy. 4499) , in: Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers, 1977-2007 , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, 2009, pp. 73-92.

Web links

• Oxford University 'P.Oxy. LXVI 4499 '.
• Images of the fragments of P.Oxy. LXVI 4499