Papyrus 78

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 78 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. XXXIV 2684
text	Judas †
language	Greek
date	3rd / 4th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Sackler Library
source	L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, P. Parsons, and J. Rea, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXXIV (1968), pp. 4-6.
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 78 (after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁷⁸ refers) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript contains some parts of the epistle of Jude . The remaining text includes verses 4-5 and 7-8. The papyrus was written in elegant handwriting. It was dated to the 3rd or 4th century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Aland placed him in Category I because of his age . Comfort describes ⁷⁸ as a free text. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The manuscript is listed in the Sackler Library as P. Oxy. 2684 kept at Oxford .

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 Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 111. 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. 73.

literature

• L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, Peter Parsons, and John Rea, Oxyrhynchus Papyri , XXXIV (London: 1968), pp. 4-6ff.
• M. Mees, ⁷⁸ : a new text witness for Jude's epistle , Orient Press I (Rome: 1970), pp. 5-10. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Web links

• Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri ⁷⁸ . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Illustrations

• P.Oxy.LXVI 2684 in Oxford's Papyrology "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
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