Papyrus 87

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Papyrus 87
Fragmento filemon.jpg
Papyrus 87, recto
text Philemon 13-15, 24-25
language Greek
date about 250
Storage location Institute for Classical Studies,

University of Cologne

source C. Römer, Kölner Papyri 4 , Papyrologica Colonensia 7 (Cologne: 1984), pp. 28-31
Type Alexandrian text type
category I.

Papyrus 87 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel 87 ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript is the oldest known document of the Philemon letter . Verses 13–15 and 24–25 have been preserved. It was dated to the late 2nd or early 3rd century using paleography .

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

The manuscript is stored in the Institute for Archeology at the University of Cologne under the signature P. Col. theol. 12 kept.

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

literature

  • C. Römer, Kölner Papyri 4 , Papyrologica Colonensia 7 (Cologne: 1984), pp. 28-31.
  • K. Wachtel, K. Witte, The New Testament on Papyrus II, The Pauline Letters , Part II, Berlin 1994, pp. LXIII-IV, p. 87.
  • W. Comfort, DP Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts , Grand Rapids MI 2001, pp. 617-618.

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