Papyrus 70

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Papyrus 70
Surname	P. Oxy. XXIV 2384
text	Matthew 2 : 13-16; 2.22-3.1; 11.26-27; 12.4-5; 24.3-6; 24.12-15
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Ashmolean Museum ; National Archaeological Museum Florence
source	E. Lobel, CH Roberts, EG Turner, and JWB Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5.
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 70 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁷⁰ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew contains only verses 2, 13-16; 2.22-3.1; 11.26-27; 12.4-5; 24.3-6; 24.12-15. ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$ ⁷⁰ has a very reliable text, although it was written carelessly. It was dated to the 3rd century using paleography .

text

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

Repository

The manuscript is currently in the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of the National Archaeological Museum in Florence (CNR 419, 420).

Individual evidence

↑ ^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 Biblical Society, Stuttgart 1989, p. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee 2005, p. 69.

literature

Edgar Lobel , Colin H. Roberts, EG Turner , JWB Barns: Oxyrhynchus Papyri . Volume 24. London 1957, pp. 4-5.
M. Naldini; Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo . In: Prometeus 1 (1975), pp. 195-200.

[Aland-1] 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. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6

[2] Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee 2005, p. 69.