Papyrus 4

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 4 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Luke 6: 4-16
character	${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$4th
text	Luke 1–6 (largely)
language	Greek
date	late 2nd / 3rd century
Found	Coptus , Egypt
Storage location	Paris , Bibliothèque nationale de France , Suppl. Gr. 1120
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 4 (numbered after Gregory-Aland ⁴ , part of Suppl. Gr. 1120 ) is an early New Testament manuscript in Greek . It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Luke and is dated to the late second / early third century. Together with ⁷⁵ it is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke and contains large parts of the first six chapters. It is currently kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 1120) in Paris . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁴ was used to bind “a Codex of Philo written in the late 3rd century. He was found in a waste paper basket that had been walled up in a house in Koptos (approx. 250). "

The Greek text represents the Alexandrian text type . Aland placed it in Category I a.

Dating

Philip Comfort and David Barret write in their book Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts that ⁴ comes from the same codex as ^64/67 (the Magdalen ^papyrus ) and dated the text to 150–175 AD. Wieland tentatively agrees with the “Dating on the 3rd century, as in NA27 . Some date it to the 2nd century (e.g. Roberts and Comfort). This is very likely considering the use of the binding material for a 3rd century code. " ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Comfort and Barret also show that ⁴ and ^{64/67 have} some similarities with a number of papyri from the late 2nd century. Roberts (1979), Skeat (1997), Wieland and Stanton also date the text to the late second century. This leads Gregory to conclude that "there are good reasons to believe that ⁴ ... may be written in the 2nd century." ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Charlesworth noted in 2007 that ^64/67 and ⁴ , although written by the same scribe, are not from the same code. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

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).
• Charlesworth, SD: TC Skeat, P64 + 67 and P4, and the Problem of Fiber Orientation in Codicological Reconstruction , New Testament Studies Vol. 53, Cambridge University Press 2007, pp. 582-604, doi : 10.1017 / S002868850700029X
• Comfort, Philip W. New Reconstructions and Identifications of New Testament Papyri . In: Novum Testamentum , Vol. 41, Fasc. 3., (Jul., 1999) pp. 214-230.
• Comfort, Philip W. and Barrett, David P. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts Wheaton, Ill .: Tyndale House. (2001) pp. 50-53
• Gregory, A. The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus , Mohr Siebeck, (2003) ISBN 3-16-148086-4 , p. 28
• Head, PM (2005), Is P4, P64 and P67 the Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? A Response to TC Skeat , New Test. Stud. 51, pp. 450-457, doi : 10.1017 / S0028688505000238
• Roberts, Colin. Manuscript, Society, and Belief in Early Christian Egypt Longwood (June 1979) ISBN 0-85672-710-5 pp. 8 + 23
• Skeat, TC (1997), The Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? , New Test. Stud. 43, pp. 1-34.
• Stanton, GN (1997), The Fourfold Gospel , New Test. Stud. 43, p. 327

Web links

• Willker, Wieland. A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels (PDF file; 85 kB) , (undated + unfinished)

Remarks

1. ↑ Gregory (2003) p.28
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Wilker
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, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 106.
4. ↑ Roberts (1979) p. 8: a codex of Philo, written in the later third century and found in a jar which had been walled up in a house at Coptos [in 250].
5. ↑ Comfort (2001) pp. 50–53, see also (1999)
6. ↑ i. e. P. Oxy. 224, 661, 2334, 2404 2750, P. Ryl. 16, 547, and P. Vindob G 29784
7. ↑ ^{a b} Gregory (2003), p. 30
8. ↑ Stanton (1997) p. 327
9. ^ Charlesworth (2007), p.604