Papyrus 29

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New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Papyrus 29
Papyrus 29 (POxy1597) .jpg
Surname P. Oxy. XIII 1597
text Acts 26 †
language Greek
date 3rd century
Found Egypt
Storage location Bodleian Library
source BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), pp. 10-12
Type west
category I.

Papyrus 29 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel 29 ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles only contains verses 26: 7-8 + 20. It was dated to the early 3rd century by means of paleography .

description

The Greek text of the code is eclectic . Grenfell and Hunt found its agreement with the Codex Bezae , 1597 and other ancient Latin manuscripts. According Aland it represents a "free text" and was in Category I belongs. However, according to Bruce M. Metzger and D. Alan Black, the manuscript could be assigned to the Western text type , "but the fragment is too small to be certain of its textual character".

It is currently in the Bodleian Library , Gr. bibl. G. 4 (P) kept in Oxford .

See also

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 XIII , (London 1919), pp. 10-12.

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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. 64.
  2. ^ BP Grenfell & AS Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), p. 10.
  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
  4. ^ David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism , Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.