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]
| New Testament manuscript | |
 | |
| Text | 1 Thessalonians 1-2 † |
|---|---|
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | National Archaeological Museum (Florence) |
| Cite | V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7. |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
- 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]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- Brent Nongbri, "A Papyrus Codex of Paul’s Letters in Greek: Another Look at PSI XIV 1373 (P65) and P.Yale I 2 + II 86 (P49)," Novum Testamentum 66 (2024), pp. 499–514, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10082
- Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7.
- Naldini, Documenti, no. 17.