Papyrus 12

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Papyrus 12 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Hebrews 1 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	The Morgan Library & Museum
source	BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 30–31 (P. Amherst 3 b)
size	20.8 cm x 23 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type  ?
category	I.

Papyrus 12 (numbered after Gregory-Aland , also marked with the seal ¹² ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . Using paleographic methods , the papyrus is dated around the year 285. It could have been a writing exercise or an amulet. It is currently held in the Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The papyrus contains a Christian letter in a second column on the front, Heb 1,1 .

Text:

πολυμερως κ πολυ [τρο] πως

παλε ο θς λαλήσ [α] ς το [ις π] ατρα

σ [ι] ημ [ω] ν εν τοις προ [φηταις]

The special features include the spelling παλε for παλαι, the contracted noun sacrum θς and the addition of ημ [ω] ν, i.e. H. "Our (fathers)".

The Greek text of the Codex likely represents the Alexandrian text type , however the text is too short to be certain. Aland placed it in Category I a.

On the reverse is the Greek text from Genesis 1,1-5 . In the count of the text witnesses of the Septuagint according to Rahlfs , the papyrus is given the number 912.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

literature

• Kurt Aland : Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament - in connection with Michael Welte, edited. by Kurt Aland. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , (Work on New Testament Text Research Vol. 1).
• Bernard Pyne Grenfell ; Arthur Surridge Hunt : The Amherst Papyri I. London 1900, pp. 30-31 (P. Amherst 3 b).

Remarks

1. ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 61.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 107.
3. ^ BP Grenfell; AS Hunt: The Amherst Papyri I. London 1900, p. 30.