Papyrus 47

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 47 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Revelation 9: 10–17: 2 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Chester Beatty Library
source	FG Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III, (London, 1934).
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.
note	close to Sinaiticus , 0308

Papyrus 47 (after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁴⁷ refers) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of Revelation contains verses 9.10-11.3; 11.5-16.15; 16.17-17.2. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Aland describes him as "plain text" and placed it in Category I a.

The text of the manuscript is closest to the Codex Sinaiticus , and there are references to one of the earliest text versions of the Book of Revelation. Another type is represented by Manuscripts ¹¹⁵ , Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Ephraemi . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

It is currently kept in the Chester Beatty Library (Inv. 14.1.527) in Dublin .

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).
• FG Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III, (London, 1934).

Web links

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Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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, p. 109. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
2. ^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68.