Papyrus 23

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 23 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
James 1: 15-18
Surname	P. Oxy. X 1229
text	James 1 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	University of Illinois
source	BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 16-18
size	12.1 x 11.2 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 23 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ²³ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James contains only verses 1,10–12; 15–18. It was dated to the early 3rd century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

description

The nouns sacra are written out in full. Abbreviations are only used at the end of some lines. Remarkably, there is also the grammatically incorrect formulation αποσκιασματος in James 1:17 - as well as in the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus .

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 Codices א , A and C , which are the best text of the Catholic Letters .

The manuscript is currently held at the University of Illinois (GP 1229) at Urbana, Illinois .

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 , Oxyrynchus Papyri X , (London 1914), pp. 16-18. Digitized at archive.org
• RH Charles, Revelation of St. John , ICC, vol. II (Edinburgh, 1920), pp. 448-450.

Web links

• ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$²³ (P.Oxy 1229) verso James 1: 10-12
• ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$²³ (P.Oxy 1229) reverso James 1: 15-18

Remarks

1. ^ ^{A b} Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 63.
2. ^ BP Grenfell & AS Hunt: Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), p. 16.
3. ↑ ^{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, p. 107. ISBN 3-438-06011-6