Papyrus 20
| New Testament manuscript | |
.jpeg) Epistle of James 3:3ā3:9 on verso side | |
| Name | P. Oxy. 1171 |
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| Text | Epistle of James 2-3 ā |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Princeton University Library |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), pp. 9-11 |
| Size | 11.5 by 4.5 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
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Papyrus 20 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by š20, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, but it only contains Chapter 2:19-3:9. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the early 3rd century.[1]
Description
The original size of the leaves was 17 by 12 cm.
The text is neatly written in upright semi-cursive letters. The main Nomina Sacra are used, but ĻĪ±ĻĪ·Ļ/pater/father and Ī±Ī½ĪøĻĻĻĪæĻ/anthropos/man are written out in full.[2]
The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.[1] This manuscript shows the greatest agreement with Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus,[3] but not with codices Ephraemi, Regius and other late Alexandrian manuscripts.[2]
Philip Comfort has conjectured that the scribe who wrote š20 was also the same scribe who wrote š27, where the Greek letters Ī±, Ī², Ī“, Īµ, Ī», Ī¹, Ī¼, Ī½, Īæ, Ļ, Ļ, Ļ, Ļ, Ļ , Ļ, Ļ are formed identically in both manuscripts.[3]
It is currently housed at the Princeton University Library (AM 4117) in Princeton.[1][4]
See also
References
- ^ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), p. 9.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". MĆ¼nster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
Further reading
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), pp. 9ā11.
External links
- Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, š20 Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Images of the š20 at the Princeton University Library Papyrus
- P. Oxy. 1171 at the Oxyrhynchus Online
- GA Papyrus 20 Archived 2019-04-25 at the Wayback Machine. Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts