Papyrus 72

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Papyrus 72
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Surname Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX
text Jude letter , 1st Peter , 2nd Peter
language Greek
date 3rd / 4th century
Storage location Bibl. Bodmeriana in Cologny / Geneva; Bibl. Vaticana
size 14.5 x 16 cm
Type Alexandrian text type
category I.
hand documentary manuscript
note similar to 72

Papyrus 72 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel 72 ) is another name for Papyrus Bodmer VII – IX . It is an early papyrus manuscript of the New Testament . It contains the complete text of the 1st Peter epistle , 2nd Peter epistle and the epistle of Jude . It was dated to the 3rd or 4th century by means of paleography .

description

It is the oldest known manuscript of these letters, although some verses by Jude are contained in fragment 78 (P. Oxy. 2684).

The document also contains the birth of Mary , the apocryphal correspondence of 3rd Corinthians , the eleventh of the Odes of Solomon , Melito's homily on the Passover, the fragment of a hymn, the Apology of Phileas and Psalm 33 and 34. It was written on 72 sheets ( 14.5 × 16 cm) with 16-20 lines per page in documentary handwriting.

The noun sacra are written with abbreviations.

Papyrus Bodmer VIII

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . According to Aland , 1 and 2 Peter are normal texts, Jude is a free text and both have certain peculiarities. Aland placed it in Category I a. It is close to the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus .

Part of the manuscript is currently in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana in Cologny near Geneva, and another part in the Vatican Library in Rome .

Individual evidence

  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 Biblical Society, Stuttgart 1989, p. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
  2. ↑ Wasserman (2005), p. 137
  3. ^ A b c Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 479.

See also

literature

  • Francis Wright Beare: The Text of I Peter in Papyrus 72 , Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 80, No. 3 (1961), pp. 253-260.
  • Tommy Wasserman: Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex , NTS 51 (2005), pp. 137-154. doi : 10.1017 / S0028688505000081
  • Philip W. Comfort, David P. Barrett: The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, pp. 479-500.
  • Sakae Kubo: 72 and the Codex Vaticanus , Studies and Documents 27, Salt Lake City 1965.