New Testament manuscript
Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓65 , is a copy of the New Testament in Greek . It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians . The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.[ 1]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type . Aland placed it in Category I , but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty.[ 1] According to Philip Comfort , 𝔓49 and 𝔓65 came from the same manuscript.[ 2] [ 3]
Location
It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).[ 1] [ 4]
See also
References
^ a b c 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 .
^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.
^ Klaus Wachtel, Klaus Witte, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: Gal., Eph., Phil., Kol., 1. u. 2. Thess., 1. u. 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Hebr , Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. LXI.
^ "Liste Handschriften" . Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011 .
Further reading
Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana , vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7.
Naldini, Documenti , no. 17.
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