Papyrus 39

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 39 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. XV 1780
text	John 8 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Ambrose Swabey Library
source	Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV, 1922, pp. 7-8.
size	16 × 26 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 39 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ³⁹ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John consists only of verses 8: 14-22. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography . It was made by a professional scribe with 25 lines per page in big beautiful letters. The pages are numbered. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather a proto-Alexandrian text type). Kurt Aland placed it in Category I a. ³⁹ shows correspondences with the Codex Vaticanus and ⁷⁵ . It does not contain any unique readings. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Handed over to the then Crozer Theological Seminary in 1924 , it was registered in the Ambrose Swabey Library of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester , New York under the Inv. No. 8864 until it was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2008 . Today the papyrus is part of the Green Collection .

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).
• Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV, 1922, pp. 7-8.

Web links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyrus ^39. ' ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• The text of ³⁹ with reconstructed lacunae ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

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. 147.
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.
3. ^ Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John , Biblica 85 (2004), pp. 399-408
4. ↑ Auction catalog , accessed on September 9, 2016