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Papyrus 65

Papyrus 65, 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.Text

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Papyrus 𝔓65
New Testament manuscript
Recto, 1 Thess 1:1-2:1
Recto, 1 Thess 1:1-2:1
Text1 Thessalonians 1-2 †
Date3rd century
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt
Now atNational Archaeological Museum (Florence)
CiteV. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryI

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
Verso, 1 Thess 2:6-13 source ↗

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.23

Location

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).14

See also

See also

References

References

  1. 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.
  2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.
  3. 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.
  4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
Further reading

Further reading

  • 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.

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