Papyrus 23, also known as P. Oxy X 1229, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, surviving in a fragmentary condition containing only James 1:10-12,15-18. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓23 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the early 3rd century.[1]
| New Testament manuscript | |
 James 1:15-18 | |
| Name | P. Oxy. X 1229 |
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| Text | James 1 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | University of Illinois |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 16-18 |
| Size | 12.1 x 11.2 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
Description
editThe Nomina sacra are written fully, abbreviations are used only at the end of lines.[2] There has been noticed the occurrence of the ungrammatical αποσκιασματος found also in Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in James 1:17. It is currently housed in the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois (G. P. 1229) in Urbana, Illinois.[3][4][5]
Text
editThe Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather proto-Alexandrian). Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[3] The manuscript displays the greatest textual agreement with codices Sinaticus (א), Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi, which represent the best text of the Catholic epistles, and then with Codex Vaticanus and 𝔓74.[1]
See also
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- ^ a b Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- ^ Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1914). The Oxyrynchus Papyri. Vol. 10. London: Oxford University Press. p. 16.
- ^ a b 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. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 23". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
- ^ "Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, P.Oxy X 1229: Excerpt, James 1: 15-18 (Fragment), Search the Collection, Spurlock Museum, U of I".
Further reading
edit- R. H. Charles, Revelation of St. John, ICC, vol. II (Edinbourgh, 1920), pp. 448–450.
External links
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- Digital Images of 𝔓23 online at the CSNTM