Papyrus 78

Papyrus \mathfrak{P}78

New Testament manuscript

Name P. Oxy. 2684
Text Jude
Date 3rd / 4th century
Script Greek
Found Egypt
Now at Sackler Library
Cite L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, P. Parsons, and J. Rea, OP XXXIV (1968), pp. 4-6.
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category I

Papyrus 78 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by \mathfrak{P}78, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of Jude. The surviving texts of Jude are verses 4-5 & 7-8. \mathfrak{P}78 is written in an elegant hand. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the 3rd century (or 4th century).[1]

Description

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. \mathfrak{P}78 displays a free text.[2] Aland placed it in Category I (because of its date).[1]

Present location

It is currently housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy. 2684) in Oxford.[1][3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
  3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

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