Papyrus 37

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 37 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
recto
text	Matthew 26 : 19-52
language	Greek
date	3rd / 4th century
Found	unknown, acquired in Cairo in 1924
Storage location	University of Michigan
source	HA Sanders, An Early Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of Matthew in the Michigan Collection , HTR . vol. 19. 1926, pp. 215-226.
size	1 sheet; 12 × 22 cm; 33 lines per page
Type	free, mostly western, Egyptian
category	I.
hand	documentary

Papyrus 37 (after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ³⁷ refers) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew is dated to the 3rd century. Because of its similarities to ⁵³ (dated 260 AD), the correspondence of Heroninos (about 260) and the letter of Kopres (P. Greco-Egizi 208, dated 256 AD), it is sometimes classified in the Period 250–260 AD. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Certain nouns sacra ( ΚΕ ΙΗΣ ΠΝΑ ΙΗΣΥ ) are included in the text. However, it has no punctuation or accent markings. However, there are occasional dots that were added to the text by a later scribe, probably to make it easier to read. Hence, it is believed that the manuscript was used in a church for a while. Statements about the regularity of the writing style and the original meaning of the papyrus are difficult to make because the manuscript is very short.

Aland placed it in Category I a.

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).
• Sanders, Henry A., An Early Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of Matthew in the Michigan Collection , Harvard Theological Review. vol. 19. 1926, pp. 215-226.
• E. von Dobschuetz, ZNW 25 (1926) p. 301

Web links

Entry at the University of Michigan Library , along with high-resolution scans:

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Remarks

1. ^ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, pp. 141, 369.
2. ↑ 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 Biblical Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 108. ISBN 3-438-06011-6