Papyrus Chester Beatty V
The Papyrus Chester Beatty V (No. 962 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a papyrus manuscript from the late 3rd century and belongs to the Chester Beatty papyri . It contains parts from Genesis 8: 13–9.1; 24.13–25.21 and 30.24–46.33) in Greek . The text is written in one column in large uncials . It is the oldest evidence of these passages in the Egyptian version of the Septuagint text.
The fragments were acquired by the American collector Alfred Chester Beatty in Egypt before the end of 1931 and are now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin with the signature P. Ch. Beatty V.
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, pp. 73-74 (AT 4). ISBN 3-11-004674-1
- Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( 962nd Papyrus Chester Beatty V ).
- Alfred Rahlfs , Detlef Fraenkel: Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament: The tradition up to the 8th century (= Septuagint. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Supplementum. Volume I, 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-53447-7 .