Papyrus 12
| New Testament manuscript | |
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| Name | P. Amherst 3b |
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| Text | Epistle to the Hebrews 1 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt 1897 |
| Now at | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b) |
| Size | 20,8 cm x 23 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type ? |
| Category | I |
Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum 𝔓12, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[1]
Description[edit]
The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines.[1]: 82 It has been written in a small uncial hand.[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint.[1]
- Text
- πολυμερως κ πολυ[τρο]πως
- παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα
- σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις][2]
It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (ΘΣ).
The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[3]
It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices 𝔓46c a t v vgmss syrp.[4]
History[edit]
The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.[1]
It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.[3][5][6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Comfort, Philip Wesley; Barrett, David P. (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- ^ a b B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), p. 30.
- ^ 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. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ NA26, p. 563.
- ^ "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ INTF. "Papirus 12 (GA)". Liste Handschriften. Münster Institute. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
Further reading[edit]
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 30–31. (P. Amherst 3 b).
- Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 47.
External links[edit]
- Digital Images of the manuscript online at the Morgan Museum & Library website.
- Papyrus 12. Entry in the Manuscript Database of the Göttinger Septuaginta by Alfred Rahlfs, published 7 April 2023
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