Papyrus 77

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁷⁷

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Oxy. 2683 and 4405
Text	Matthew 23 †
Date	2nd/3rd 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.
Size	4.6 cm x 7 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁷⁷, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 23:30-39. ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁷⁷ is written in an elegant hand. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned a date anywhere from the middle 2nd century to the early 3rd century.^[1]

According to Comfort together with Papyrus 103 probably belongs to the same codex.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a “at least normal text”, and placed it in Category I.^[3] ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁷⁷ has the closest affinity with Codex Sinaiticus.^[2]

Present location

It is currently housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy. 2683) in Oxford.^[3][4]

Textual Variants

• 23:30: Rearranges the words αυτων κοινωνοι (their partners) to κοινωνοι αυτων (partners their).
• 23:37: Has variant spelling ορνιξ for ορνις (hen).
• 23:37: Originally omitted και from the text. Scribe added it later superlinearly between πτερυγας and ουκ.
• 23:38: According to the transcription from the University of Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research, the scribe omitted ερημος (desolate).^[5] According to the transcription of Philip Comfort and David Barrett however, the scribe included it.^[6]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts pp 609
2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
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. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
5. Institute for New Testament Textual Research
6. Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts, pp. 611

Further reading

• L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, Peter Parsons, and John Rea, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXXIV (London: 1968), pp. 4–6.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 609–611. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Images

• P.Oxy.LXVI 2683 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• Papyrus 77 recto
• Papyrus 77 verso