Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781
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| Name | P. Oxy. 208 |
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| Text | John 1; 16; 20 † |
| Date | ~250 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Oxyrhynchus, Egypt |
| Now at | British Library |
| Cite | Grenfell & Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II, 1899, pp. 1 ff; XV, pp. 8-12. |
| Size | 12.5 cm by 25 cm |
| Type | Western text-type |
| Category | I |
| Hand | documentary hand |
| Note | close to Codex Sinaiticus |
Papyrus 5 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓5 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the early 3rd century.[1] The papyrus is housed in the British Library. It has survived in a very fragmentary condition, which has resulted in differing ways of transcribing the text.
Description
The manuscript is a fragment of three leaves, written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.[1]Template:R/superscript The surviving text of John are verses Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".,Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".,Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".,Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"..[1]Template:R/superscript
It was written in a documentary hand, in a round, upright uncial of medium size. It uses the nomina sacra throughout (sacred names, these being words/titles considered sacred in Christianity), with the following: (ΙΗΝ ΙΗΣ ΠΡ ΠΡΑ ΠΡΣ ΘΥ), though not for ανθρωπος.[2]
There is a tendency to brevity, especially in omitting unnecessary pronouns and conjunctions.[3]
Text
Transcription of the text according to the reconstruction of papyrologist and Biblical scholar Philip W. Comfort.[1]Template:R/superscript
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In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". "οι δε" was added superlineary; αυ was deleted by dots above the letters.[1]Template:R/superscript
In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". "ο" was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". αυτω was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". και was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
Textual character
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In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". it reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts 𝔓106, א, b, e, ff2, syrc, s.
In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". at line 7 of the recto of the second fragment there appears to be extra space which would require some additional material.[2]Template:R/superscript
In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., λυπηθησεσθε originally read λουπηθησεσθε, to which the scribe corrected to λυπηθησεσθε. In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., λυπην originally read λοιπην, to which the scribe corrected to λυπην. In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., it singularly omits εγω. In Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". the scribe originally omitted και, but then added it superlinearly later on.[1]Template:R/superscript
At line 19 of the third folio of the recto (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) the missing fragment is difficult for a reconstruction. Grenfell & Hunt remarked that there is no space for the ordinary reading ο λεγεται διδασκαλε because a line should have 34 letters, which is too long.[3]Template:R/superscript Grenfell & Hunt rejected another possible reading κε διδασκαλε, which is found in Codex Bezae (possible conflation), and proposed κε alone, because Domine is found in Codex Vercellensis and in Codex Usserianus I,[3]Template:R/superscript but in the reconstructed text of the manuscript they did not decide to include this proposed variant to the text:
- αρω [λεγει αυτη ιης μαριαμ στραφει
- [σα εκεινη λεγει αυτω εβραιστι ραβ
- β[ουνι . . . . . . . . . . . λεγει αυτη ιης[3]Template:R/superscript
All the editors agree that the space is insufficient for ο λεγεται διδασκαλε (John 20,16) but κε alone is too short and it is not supported by any Greek manuscript. Elliott & Parker have suggested ο λεγεται κε.[4] It was supported by Biblical scholar Peter Head.[2]Template:R/superscript Comfort proposed κε μου though this reading is not supported by any known Greek manuscript.[1]Template:R/superscript It is close for κε διδασκαλε of Codex Bezae and Old-Latin Magister Domine or Domine.[5]
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Western text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a "Normal text", and placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[6] It stays in close agreement with Codex Sinaiticus against Codex Vaticanus (e.g. Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"..Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"..Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"..Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".).[1]Template:R/superscript "This agreement is unfortunately obscured by mutilation".[3]Template:R/superscript
History
The manuscript was discovered at the end of the 19th century by Grenfell and Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. The first and third leaves were published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II (1899), no. 208. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory classified it under number 5 on his list.[7] The second leaf (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) was published in 1922 as Oxyrhynchus no. 1781.[8]
It was examined by Grenfell, Hunt, Karl Wessely,[9] Schofield, and Comfort.[1]Template:R/superscript
It is currently housed at the British Library (Inv. nos. 782, 2484) in London.[6]Template:R/superscript[10]
See also
- John 1, John 16, John 20
- List of New Testament papyri
- Oxyrhynchus papyri
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri 159 through 207
- Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 209
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Head, Peter M. (2004). "The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John". Biblica. 85: 404. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1899). The Oxyrynchus Papyri. Vol. 2. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 1–8.
- ^ Elliott & Parker, The New Testament in Greek IV. The Gospel according to St. John, volume 1, The Papyri (Leiden: Brill, 1995), 34.
- ^ UBS3, p. 410.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1085.
- ^ Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament", London2, 1912, p. 42.
- ^ Karl Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme, PO 4/2 (1907), pp. 145–148.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 5". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1922). The Oxyrynchus Papyri. Vol. XV. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 8–12.
- C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, p. 1085.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 45.
- Karl Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme, PO 4/2 (1907), pp. 145–148.
External links
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- Digital Images of 𝔓5 online (782 and 2484) at the British Library Online Catalogue
- Digital Images of 𝔓5 online at the CSNTM
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