Papyrus 27

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 27 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. 1355
text	Romans 8-9 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Cambridge University Library
source	BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrynchus Papyri XI, (London 1915), pp. 9-12
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 27 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ²⁷ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of Romans only contains verses 8,12-22,24-27; 8.33-9.3.5-9. It was dated to the early 3rd century by means of paleography . The writer of this manuscript probably also wrote ²⁰ . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Kurt Aland placed it in Category I a. This manuscript shows agreement with the Codex Sinaiticus , Vaticanus and other evidence of the Alexandrian text type.

It is currently kept in the University Library (Add. 7211) in Cambridge .

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 XI, (London 1915), pp. 9-12.

Individual evidence

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. 62.
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.