Papyrus Chester Beatty VIII
The Papyrus Chester Beatty VIII (No. 966 after Rahlfs ) are two small fragments of a papyrus manuscript from the late 2nd or early 3rd century. They contain parts of the book of Isaiah , namely chapters 4.30-5.1, chapters 9-14 and chapters 23-24 in Greek ( Septuagint ). The text is written in one column in uncials . 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 VIII.
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.
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. 199 (AT 139). ISBN 3-11-004674-1
- 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, p. 98. ISBN 3-525-53447-7 , ( online )
- Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( 966 ).