Papyrus 8

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 8 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Acts 4-6 †
language	Greek
date	4th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	State museums in Berlin
source	AH Salonius, The Greek Manuscript Fragments of the New Testament in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , ZNW 26 (1927), 97-119
size	18.6 x 10.4 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Papyrus 8 (numbered after Gregory-Aland ⁸ ) is an early New Testament manuscript in Greek . It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles and includes Acts. 4: 31-37; 5: 2-9; 6: 1-6.8-15. It was assigned to the 4th century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex corresponds to the Alexandrian text type . Aland placed him in Category II .

It is kept in the State Museums in Berlin (Inv. No. 8683).

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).
• CR Gregory , Text Critique of the New Testament III (Leipzig: 1909), pp. 1087-1090.
• AH Salonius, The Greek Manuscript Fragments of the New Testament in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.

Web links

• Entry P. 8683 in the Berlin papyrus database

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. 106. ISBN 3-438-06011-6