Papyrus 72

Papyrus 72

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Two sides of the Papyrus Bodmer VIII
Name	Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX
Sign	$\mathfrak{P}$^72
Text	Jude, 1 Peter, 2 Peter
Date	3rd/4th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Cologny/Geneva; Vatican City, Bibl. Bodmeriana; Bibl. Vaticana
Size	14.5 by 16 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	documentary hand
Note	resembles $\mathfrak{P}$^50

Papyrus 72 ($\mathfrak{P}$⁷², Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX) is an early New Testament papyrus. It contains all the text of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 3rd or 4th century.^[1]

Description

It is the earliest known manuscript of these epistles, though a few verses of Jude are in a fragment $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁸ (P. Oxy. 2684).^[2]

Papyrus 72 was found bound in a codex, known as the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex,^[2] which also contained the following works: Nativity of Mary, the apocryphal correspondence of Paul to the Corinthians, the eleventh ode of Solomon, Melito's Homily on the Passover, a fragment of a hymn, the Apology of Phileas, and Psalm 33 and 34.^[3] Written on 72 leaves (14.5 cm, by 16 cm), in 16-20 lines per page. The manuscript is written by a documentary hand.^[3]

The manuscript contains the usual nomina sacra for Messiah, Jesus, God, Lord, Spirit, Father, plus a few non-standard ones: ΔΥΜΙ (power), Σαρρα (Sarah), Αβρααμ (Abraham), Νωε (Noah), Μιχαης (Archangel Michael), and Ενωχ (Enoch).

A facsimile edition of Bodmer Papyrus VIII was published in 2007 by Testimonio Compañía Editorial.^[4]

Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Aland in 1-2 Peter it has normal text, in Jude free text, both with certain peculiarities. Aland placed it into I Category.^[1] It is close to the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus.^[3]

$\mathfrak{P}$72 is currently housed at the Vatican Library (P. Bodmer VIII) at Rome.^[1][5]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Bodmer Library

References

1. 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. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Wasserman (2005), p. 137
3. Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 479.
4. http://www.testimonio.com/en/facsimil-colecciones/st-peter-facsimile.html
5. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Further reading

• Beare, FW (1961),The Text of I Peter in Papyrus 72, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 80, No.3, pp. 253–260.
• Wasserman, T. (2005), Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex, NTS 51, p. 137-154. doi:10.1017/S0028688505000081
• Jones, Brice C. (2011), The Bodmer 'Miscellaneous' Codex and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex MS 193: A New Proposal, JGRChJ (2011-2012): 9-20.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 478–500. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
• Sakae Kubo, $\mathfrak{P}$72 and the Codex Vaticanus, Studies and Documents 27 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965).
• Images available for viewing at CSNTM, $\mathfrak{P}$".