Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781
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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 Template:Papyrus 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 1:23-31,33-40; 16:14-30; 20:11-17,19-20,22-25.[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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- Scribes and Correctors
In John 1:38 "οι δε" was added superlineary; αυ was deleted by dots above the letters.[1]Template:R/superscript
In John 16:19 "ο" was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
In John 16:29 αυτω was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
In John 20:19 και was added superlineary.[1]Template:R/superscript
Textual character
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In John 1:34 it reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts Template:Papyrus link, א, b, e, ff2, syrc, s.
In John 16:17 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 John 16:20, λυπηθησεσθε originally read λουπηθησεσθε, to which the scribe corrected to λυπηθησεσθε. In 16:21, λυπην originally read λοιπην, to which the scribe corrected to λυπην. In 16:27, it singularly omits εγω. In 20:19 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 (John 20:16) 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. John 1:27.34; 16:22.27.28; 20:25).[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 (John 16:14-30) 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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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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Further reading
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- C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, p. 1085.
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- Karl Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme, PO 4/2 (1907), pp. 145–148.
External links
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- Digital Images of Template:Papyrus online at the CSNTM
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