Papyrus 37
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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.
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
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:
Remarks
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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