Papyrus 75

Papyrus 75

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Bodmer XIV-XV
Sign	$\mathfrak{P}$^75
Text	Luke 3:18-24:53 + John 1-15 (extensive portions of,)
Date	175-225
Script	Greek
Found	Pabau, Egypt
Now at	Vatican Library, Rome
Cite	V. Martin, R. Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV
Size	26 cm x 13 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Note	very close to P^66, B, 0162

Papyrus 75 ($\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV) is an early Greek New Testament papyrus.

Description

Originally '[it] contained about 144 pages ... of which 102 have survived, either in whole or in part.'^[1] It 'contains about half the text of ... two Gospels'^[2] – Luke (Papyrus Bodmer XIV) and John (Papyrus Bodmer XV) in Greek. It is dated in Nestle-Aland (27th edition, NA27) as being an early third century manuscript. It is one of the earliest manuscripts (along with $\mathfrak{P}$⁴)^[3] of the Gospel of Luke. 'The surviving fragment contains Luke 3:18-24:53 ...'^[3][4] An unusual feature of this codex is that when the Gospel of Luke ends, the Gospel of John begins on the same page.^[5]

It lacks text of Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43–44)^[6] and Pericope Adulterae.

It uses a staurogram in Luke 14:27.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category I.^[7] The text is closer to Codex Vaticanus than to Codex Sinaiticus. Agreement between $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵ and codex B is 92% in John,^[8] and 94% in Luke.^[9] It concurs with $\mathfrak{P}$¹¹¹.^[10]

According to Kurt Aland, $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵ is the key for understanding the primitive textual history of New Testament.^[11]

In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading is supported by Minuscule 705 and Codex Veronensis.^[12]

Textual variants

In Luke 11:4, the phrase αλλα ρυσαι ημας απο του πονηρου (but deliver us from evil) is omitted. The omission of this phrase is also supported by the following manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Codex Regius, f¹, 700, vg, syr^s, cop^{sa, bo}, arm, geo.^[13]

In Luke 16:19 the manuscript reads Ανθρωπος δε τις ην πλουσιος, ονοματι Ν[ιν]ευης, και ενεδιδυσκετο "There was a rich man, with the name N[in]eue, who clothed himself",^[14] This reading has support from the Sahidic version and the two Greek minuscule manuscripts 36 and 37, in addition to a scholion of uncertain date have ευρον δε τινες και του πλουσιου εν τισιν αντιγραφοις τουνομα Νινευης λεγομενον.^[15]

Luke 22:43-44 is omitted, as in codices א*, A, B, T, 1071.^[16]

In Luke 23:34, $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵ has omitted the words: "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts Sinaiticus^a, B, D*, W, Θ, 0124, 1241, it^{a, d}, syr^s, cop^sa, cop^bo.^[17]

Luke 24:26

δοξαν – majority of mss

βασιλειαν – $\mathfrak{P}$^75[18]

John 10:7

η θυρα (door) – majority

ο ποιμην (shepherd) – $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵ cop^sa cop^ac[19]

The manuscript also lacks the Pericope of the Adulteress, usually placed in Translations at John 7:53-8:11. This omission is supported by the manuscripts Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus and $\mathfrak{P}$⁶⁶.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (P. Bodmer XIV-XV) at Rome.^[20]

The discovery of $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵ has had a profound effect on New Testament textual criticism, due to its great agreement with Codex Vaticanus.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Bodmer Papyri

References

1. Metzger+Ehrman (2005),p.58
2. Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican
3. Gregory (2003) p.28
4. Wilker
5. Edwards (1976), p. 194
6. Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin; communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 235. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
7. 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. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. S. A. Edwards, P75 Under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, XVIII, fasc. 3, pp. 211-212.
9. Gordon D. Fee, $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵, $\mathfrak{P}$⁶⁶, and Origen: The Myth of Early Textual Recension in Alexandria, in: E. J. Epp & G. D. Fee, Studies in the Theory & Method of NT Textual Criticism, Wm. Eerdmans (1993), pp. 247-273.
10. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.
11. Reconsidering $\mathfrak{P}$75 in the Frame of a Various Egyptian Tradition
12. NA26, p. 181
13. UBS3, p. 256.
14. Philip Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (2001), p. 551.
15. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations, Clarendon Press: Oxford 1977, p. 136.
16. UBS3, p. 305.
17. UBS4, p. 311.
18. NA26, p. 244
19. NA26, p. 282
20. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Bibliography

• V. Martin, R. Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV: Evangiles de Luc et Jean, Vol. 1, Papyrus Bodmer XIV: Evangile de Luc chap. 3-24; vol. 2, Papyrus Bodmer XV: Evangile de Jean chap. 1-15, Cologny-Geneva: Biblioteca Bodmeriana, 1961.
• Gregory, A. The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus, Mohr Siebeck, (2003) ISBN 3-16-148086-4, p. 28
• Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The text of the New Testament: its transmission, corruption, and restoration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 58–9. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
• Aland, Kurt (2009). "Neue Neutestamentliche Papyri III". New Testament Studies 22 (04): 375–96. doi:10.1017/S0028688500010080.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 501–608. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Images

• Image of a page of Papyrus 75 (accessed 2007-09-26)

External links

• Edwards, SA (1976), Sarah Alexander Edwards, P75 under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, Vol. 18, Fasc. 3. (Jul., 1976), pp. 190–212.
• Waltz, Robert B. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁵.
• Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican (accessed 2007-09-26)
• Willker, Wieland. A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, (undated+unfinished)