Papyrus 77

Papyrus 77

New Testament manuscript

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 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. 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] 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]

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References

  1. Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts pp 609
  2. 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. 1 2 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

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