Papyrus 53

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 53 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Matthew 26 †; Acts 9-10 †
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Arsinoites (Fayum)
Storage location	University of Michigan , Ann Arbor
source	HA Sanders, A Third Century Papyrus of Matthew and Acts XVIII (London: 1937), pp. 151-161.
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 53 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁵³ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript contains fragments of the Gospel of Matthew (Matt 26: 29-40) and the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 9: 33-10: 1). It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography . The two fragments were found together and were once part of a codex that contained the four Gospels with the Acts of the Apostles or just Matthew and the Acts of the Apostles. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather a Proto-Alexandrian). Aland described him as "at least normal text" and placed it in Category I a.

The manuscript is currently held at the University of Michigan under inventory number 6652 in Ann Arbor .

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).
• Henry A. Sanders, A Third Century Papyrus of Matthew and Acts , in: Quantulacumque: Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake (London: 1937), pp. 151-161.

Web links

• Photo from ⁵³ folio 1 recto ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Photo of ⁵³ folio 1 verso ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Photo from ⁵³ folio 2 recto ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Photo of ⁵³ folio 2 verso ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Remarks

1. ^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 69.
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, p. 109. ISBN 3-438-06011-6