![]() ![]() 18 of those readings are supported by nearly all manuscripts. By Sander's count, there are 85 extant variants in this portion of Matthew. The text-type mostly follows Western readings. Because the manuscript is so short, it is difficult to gauge the regularity of the dots, or their purpose for certain. This suggests that the manuscript was used at one point in church. There are, however, dots that appear in irregular intervals, placed in the text by a later hand, apparently to help reading. There are no punctuation or accent marks. The handwriting is similar to personal letters and documents from the mid 3rd century.Ĭertain nomina sacra (ΚΕ ΙΗΣ ΠΝΑ ΙΗΣΥ) are employed in the text. The writer was most likely literate and educated because the letters do not appear crude or imitative, but the irregularities suggest the writer was not an experienced scribe. There are many variations in the letters, which makes a precise dating based on paleography difficult. ![]() The cursive letters resemble the cursive that was common between the years 200 and 350. The papyrus uses a legible, cursive-like script with irregular character linking. This portion of Matthew depicts the Last Supper, the betrayal by Judas, and the beginning of the Arrest of Jesus. The surviving text of Matthew are verses 26:19-52. The fragment is damaged on all sides with considerable lacunae and was probably originally 15 cm by 25.5 cm. The manuscript is a fragment of a single leaf consisting of one column of 33 lines (40 to 50 characters per line), roughly 12.1 cm by 22.4 cm. Its exact origin is unknown, but it most likely came from Egypt. It is currently housed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Library (inventory #1570), and was purchased in Cairo, Egypt, in 1924. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew dating to the 3rd century, sometime around 250-260 CE, due to its affinities with □53 (dated to 260 CE), The correspondence of Heroninos (dated shortly before or after 260 CE) and a letter by Kopres (P. Papyrus 37 designated by □37 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. book form, not a scroll) and contains parts of seven lines from the John 18:31–33 on the front, and parts of seven lines from verses 37–38 on the back. 100-150, although most scholars today would use a wider date range of the second century in general. Three of the leading papyrologists in Europe to whom Roberts sent photos of the fragment to dated it from A.D. However, it wasn’t really “discovered” until 1934 when it was translated by C. ![]() It was purchased in 1920 by Bernard Grenfell on the Egyptian antiquities market. The earliest and most famous Greek New Testament manuscript is the Ryland Papyrus □52, currently on display at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, UK. As of 2019, a total of 140 papyri are known. in 1963 enumerated 76 papyri, in 1989 were known 96 papyri, and in 2008 124 papyri. Kenyon in 1912 knew 14 papyri, Aland in his first edition of Kurzgefasste. The discoveries of the twentieth century brought about the earliest known New Testament manuscript fragments. These 9 papyri were just single fragments, except for □15, which consisted of a single whole leaf. Before 1900, only 9 papyri manuscripts were known, and only one had been cited in a critical apparatus (□11 by Constantin von Tischendorf). This number refers not to the age of the papyrus, but to the order in which it was registered. The grouping was first introduced by Caspar René Gregory, who assigned papyri texts the Blackletter character □ followed by a superscript number. ![]() This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament. About the New Testament Papyri About the New Testament PapyriĪ New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. ![]()
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