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Papyrus 80

Papyrus 80, designed by 𝔓80, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving text of John is verse 3:34. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.Text

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Papyrus 𝔓80
New Testament manuscript
Recto, John 3:34
Recto, John 3:34
TextGospel of John 3:34
Date3rd century
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt
Now atFoundation of St. Luke the Evangelist
CiteR. Roca-Puig, Papiro del evangelio de San Juan con ‘Hermeneia’, (Milan: 1966), pp. 225-236.
Size10.4 cm x 10.6 cm
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryI

Papyrus 80 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designed by 𝔓80, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving text of John is verse 3:34. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.

Text
Verso, John 3:34 source ↗

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but text is too brief too determine its textual character.1 Aland placed it in Category I (because of its date).2

Location

It is currently housed at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista (Inv. no. 83) in Barcelona.23

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
  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. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
Further reading

Further reading

  • R. Roca-Puig, Papiro del evangelio de San Juan con ‘Hermeneia’, in Atti dell’ XI Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Milan: 1966), pp. 225–236.