Chester Beatty IV papyrus
The papyrus Chester Beatty IV (No. 961 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a papyrus manuscript from the 4th century and belongs to the Chester Beatty papyri . It contains parts from Genesis 9 : 1-44, 22 in Greek . There are 50 damaged leaves, which are described in two columns in large, thick uncials . The text is the oldest evidence of the Egyptian version of these passages of the Septuagint text, as these are not included in the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus .
The fragments were acquired in Egypt by the American collector Alfred Chester Beatty before November 1931 . They are now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin .
Text output
- Frederic G. Kenyon: The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri. Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible . Emery Walker Ltd., London 1933-1937 ( Fasciculus I: General Introduction ).
literature
- Kurt Aland : Repertory of the Greek Christian Papyri I. Biblical Papyri: Old Testament, New Testament, Varia, Apocrypha (= Patristic Texts and Studies 18). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, p. 75 f. (AT 5). ISBN 3-11-004674-1
- Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( 961st Chester Beatty Papyrus IV ).
- Alfred Rahlfs , Detlef Fraenkel: Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament. Volume I, 1: The tradition up to the 8th century (= Septuagint. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Supplementum). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-53447-7 .