Papyrus 20

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 20 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. IX 1171
text	James 2-3 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Princeton University Library
source	BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), pp. 9-11
size	11.5 x 4.5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 20 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ²⁰ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the epistle of James only contains verses 2.19-3.9. It was dated to the early 3rd century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather a Proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I a. The manuscript shows the greatest agreement with the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus .

It is currently held in the Princeton University Library (AM 4117) in Princeton .

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).
• BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX , (London 1912), pp. 9-11.

Web links

• Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, ²⁰ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Images of the ²⁰ at the Princeton University Library Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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, p. 107. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
2. ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 62.