Papyrus 5

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Papyrus 5 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John dating paleographically to the early 3rd century.

Contents 1 Description 2 Location 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links

Description

The manuscript is a fragment of two leaves, written in one column per page. The surviving text of John are verses 1:23-31.33-40; 16:14-30; 20:11-17.19-20.22-25.

It was written in a documentary hand, in a round, upright uncial of medium size. It uses the nomina sacra with abbreviationes (ΙΗΝ ΙΗΣ ΠΡ ΠΡΑ ΠΡΣ ΘΥ), thought not for ανθρωπος.<ref name = Head> Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 404.</ref>

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a "Normal text", and placed it in Category I.<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 96. </ref> It stays in close agreement with Codex Sinaiticus against Vaticanus.<ref>Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 60. </ref>

In John 1:34 it reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>¹⁰⁶, א, b, e, ff², syr^{c, s}.

In John 16:20 λυπηθησεσθε reads λουπηθησεσθε, in 16:21 λυπην reads λοιπην. In 16:27 singularly omits εγω, in 20:19 the scribe omitted και.<ref name = Head/>

Location

It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, by Grenfell and Hunt and published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II (1899), no. 208.<ref>Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament", London², 1912, p. 42.</ref> It is currently housed at the British Library (Inv. nos. 782, 2484) in London.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

References

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II, (London, 1899), pp. 1-8.
• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV, (London, 1922), pp. 8-12.
• C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, p. 1085.

External links

• Image from <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁵, John 1:33-40
• Image from <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁵, John 16:14-22
• Image from <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁵, John 16:22-30