Papyrus Chester Beatty VI (Bible)

Chester Beatty VI papyrus, fragments from Numbers in Michigan

The papyrus Chester Beatty VI (No. 963 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a papyrus manuscript from the first half of the 2nd century and one of the Chester Beatty papyri . It contains parts of the 4th and 5th books of Moses in Greek . There are 50 mostly damaged leaves that are written in small uncials in good script.

The text of Book 4 of Moses is similar to the text of the Codex Vaticanus (B), the text from Book of Moses is similar to the Codex Sarravianus (G) and the Codex Washingtonensis (Θ).

The fragments were acquired in Egypt by the American collector Alfred Chester Beatty before the end of 1931 . Most of the fragments are in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin with the call number P. Ch. Beatty VI, some in the Ann Arbor Library of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , call number P. Mich. Inv. 5554.

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. 20-22, 92-93 (No. 05 or AT 24 and AT 25). ISBN 3-11-004674-1
• 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 , p. 94.
• Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( 963rd Papyrus Chester Beatty VI ).

Web links

• Digitization of the papyrus

Remarks

1. ↑ Numbers 5: 12-8, 19; 13.4-6.17-18; 25.5-36.13; Deuteronomy 1.20–7.20; 9.26-12.17; 18.22-19.16; 27.6-32.14.