| New Testament manuscript | |
 Oxford fragment recto, Matt 11:26-27 | |
| Name | P. Oxy. 2384 |
|---|---|
| Text | Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence) |
| Cite | E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5. |
| Size | 15 x 25 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
| Hand | carelessly written |
Papyrus 70 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓70 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. 𝔓70 has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.1
- Text
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.2
- Present location
It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence)2 (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).3
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Oxford fragment verso, Matt 12:4-5 -
Florence fragment a recto, Matt 2:22-3:1 -
Florence fragment a verso, Matt 2:13–16 -
Florence fragment b recto, Matt 24:3-6 -
Florence fragment b verso, Matt 24:12-15.
References
References
- Comfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers. p. 69.
- 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. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- "Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 70". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
Images
- High Resolution Digital images of P. Oxy. XXIV online at the University of Oxford's "P. Oxy Online"
- Digital Images of 𝔓107 online at the CSNTM.
Further reading
Further reading
- Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXIV (London: 1957), pp. 4–5.
- M. Naldini, Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo, Prometeus 1 (Florence: 1975), pp. 195–200.
- Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 473–477. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.