| New Testament manuscript | |
 | |
| Name | P. Oxy. 1008 |
|---|---|
| Text | 1 Corinthians 7–8 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Egyptian Museum |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8 |
| Size | 26.5 x 14 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated as 𝔓15, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was part of a papyrus manuscript containing the Pauline letters. It contains 1 Corinthians 7:18–8:4.1 The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned either to the 3rd century2 or the fourth century.3
Description
The manuscript is written in a competent literary hand that is sometimes described as belonging to the "severe style."4 There are about 37-38 lines per page. 𝔓15 and 𝔓16 were almost certainly part of the same manuscript.5
The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.6 It is currently housed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BAAM 0543) in Alexandria.7
References
References
- Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- Orsini, Pasquale; Clarysse, Willy (2012). "Early New Testament Manuscripts and their Dates". Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. 88: 443–474.
- Orsini, Pasquale; Clarysse, Willy (2012). "Early New Testament Manuscripts and their Dates". Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. 88: 443–474.
- Nongbri, Brent (2026). "A Papyrus Codex of the Pauline Corpus from Oxyrhynchus: The History, Script, and Codicology of P.Oxy. 7.1008 (P15) and 7.1009 (P16)". Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. 117 (1): 119–134.
- 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. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- Nongbri, Brent (2026). "A Papyrus Codex of the Pauline Corpus from Oxyrhynchus: The History, Script, and Codicology of P.Oxy. 7.1008 (P15) and 7.1009 (P16)". Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. 117 (1): 119–134.
Further reading
Further reading
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4–8.