Papyrus 40

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 40 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Romans 1-4; 6; 9 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	University of Heidelberg
source	F. Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente , VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), 28-31
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.
hand	carefree

Papyrus 40 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁴⁰ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript from Romans contains verses 1: 24-27; 1.31-2.3; 3.21-4.8; 6.4-5.16; 9.16-17.27. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography . It was written carelessly. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather a Proto-Alexandrian text type). Kurt Aland called it "free text" and classified it in Category I because of its age .

The manuscript is closer to the Codex Sinaiticus than to the Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus .

The fragments are currently kept in the papyrus collection of Heidelberg University (inv. No. 45).

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).
• Friedrich Bilabel : Roman Letter Fragments , VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), pp. 28-31.

Web links

• VBP IV 57 high-resolution images of the 10 fragments, Heidelberg University

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{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 Biblical Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 108. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
2. ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 65.