Papyrus 22
From Textus Receptus
Papyrus 22 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 
22, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only John 15:25-16:2.21-32. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the early 3rd century.[1]
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Description
It was written in two consecutive columns of all roll. The reverse side is blank.[2] The nomina sacra abbreviated. No punctuation marks.[3]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland described it as a normal text and placed it in Category I.[1] This manuscript displays an independent text.[2] Coincidances with the Codex Sinaiticus are frequent, but divergences are noticable.[3] No singular readings.[4] According to Schofield the fragment rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place[2].
It was digitized by the CSNTM in 2008.[5]
It is currently housed at the Glasgow University Library (MS Gen 1026) in Glasgow.[1]
See also
References
- 1. 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. 97.
- 2. Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 62.
- 3. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), p. 14.
- 4. Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 399-408
- 5. CSNTM description
Further reading
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 14-16.
