Papyrus 31

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 31 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Romans 12 †
language	Greek
date	7th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	John Rylands Library
source	AS Hunt , Catalog of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), pp. 9-10
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 31 (after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ³¹ refers) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of Romans only contains verses 12: 3-8. It was dated to the 7th century by means of paleography . The back is not written on. It was probably used as a talisman . Hunt guessed it was a lectionary . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

description

The handwriting is written in medium-sized variable letters. It appears to be a copy for the church lecture.

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Kurt Aland placed it in Category I a. It conforms to the Codex Sinaiticus .

It is currently kept with the Rylands Papyri in the John Rylands University Library (Gr. P. 4) in Manchester .

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).
• AS Hunt , Catalog of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), pp. 9-10.

Web links

• AS Hunt, Catalog of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, 9

Remarks

1. ^ ^{A b c} A. S. Hunt, Catalog of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9.
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. 108.