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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form   = Uncial
| number = '''0162'''
| image  = Fragment of the Gospel of St. John 2-11-22 MET sf09-182-43s2.jpg
| isize  = 
| caption= 
| name   = P. Oxy. 847
| sign   = 
| text   = [[Gospel of John|John]] 2:11-22
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date   = c. 300
| found  = [[Oxyrhynchus]], [[Egypt]]
| now at = [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
| cite   = [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell|Grenfell]] and [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|Hunt]] ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VI, 4-5
| size   = 1 [[vellum]] leaf; 16 x 15 cm; 20 lines/page
| type   = [[Alexandrian text-type|Alexandrian]]
| cat    = I
| hand   = 
| note   = very close to '''[[Papyrus 66|P<sup>66</sup>]]''', '''[[Papyrus 75|P<sup>75</sup>]]''', '''[[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]]'''
}}
'''Uncial 0162''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), ε 023 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]; also known as '''[[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 847]]''' or '''P.Oxy. 847'''), is one [[vellum]] leaf of a [[Codex]] containing [[Gospel of John|The Gospel of John]] in [[Greek language|Greek]]. It has been [[Palaeography|paleographically]] assigned a 3rd<ref name = Comfort/> or 4th<ref name = Aland/> century CE date.

== Description ==
{{Grenfell and Hunt}}
Uncial 0162 is one of the manuscripts excavated by [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell]] and [[Arthur Surridge Hunt]] in [[Oxyrynchus]], [[Egypt]] and is now part of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] collection in [[New York City]].

Unical 0162 measures 16&nbsp;cm by 15&nbsp;cm from a page of 20 lines.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]] | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | pages = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n126 104], 123 | url =https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt| url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

The scribe of Uncial 0162 was probably a professional.<ref name = Comfort/>

Uncial 0162 uses the usual [[nomina sacra]]: {{overline|ΙΗΣ}}, {{overline|ΙΣ}}, and {{overline|ΠΡΣ}}.

Uncial 0162 had formally been assigned to the 4th century CE,<ref name = Aland/> but Comfort argued that the small [[omicron]] belongs to the 3rd rather than the 4th century CE.<ref name = Comfort/>

The readings of Uncial 0162 are very close to [[Papyrus 66]] (P<sup>66</sup>), [[Papyrus 75]] (P<sup>75</sup>) and [[Codex Vaticanus]] (B).<ref name = Comfort>{{Cite book
 | last = Comfort
 | first = Philip W.
 | author-link = Philip Comfort
 | author2 = David P. Barrett
 | title = The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
 | publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
 | year = 2001
 | location = Wheaton, Illinois
 | pages = 683
 | isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}}</ref>

The text of Uncial 0162 is closer to Vaticanus than [[Codex Sinaiticus|Sinaiticus]].

Uncial 0162 is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the [[Novum Testamentum Graece]].<ref>[[Eberhard Nestle]], [[Erwin Nestle]], Barbara Aland and [[Kurt Aland]] (eds), ''Novum Testamentum Graece'', 27th edition,
(Stuttgart: [[Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft]], 2001), 58.</ref> NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age."<ref>''Ibid''.</ref>

The text was first published by Grenfell and Hunt in ''The Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' in 1908.<ref>Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt and others, ''The Oxyrhynchus Papyri'', 66 volumes to date, (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1898—), 6:4-5.</ref>

Currently Uncial 0162 is dated by the [[INTF]] to the 4th century CE.<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF>{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20162 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=21 April 2011 |location=Münster}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of New Testament uncials]]
'''Other early uncials:'''
*[[Uncial 0171]]
*[[Uncial 0189]]
*[[Uncial 0220]]
* [[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 846]]
* [[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 848]]

'''Related articles:'''
*[[Textual criticism]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* J. M. Bover, ''Dos papiros egipcios del N.T. recientemente publicados'', EE 9 (1930), pp.&nbsp;291–320. 
* [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell|B. P. Grenfell]] & [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|A. S. Hunt]], [https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspappt06grenuoft#page/4/mode/2up ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VI], Egypt Exploration Fund (London 1908), pp.&nbsp;4–5. 
* U. B. Schmid, [[David C. Parker|D. C. Parker]], W. J. Elliott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QBSOiQyAJTYC&pg=PA131 ''The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules''] (Brill 2007), pp.&nbsp;131–132. [text of the codex]

== External links ==
{{commonscat|Uncial 0162}}
* [http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.6&d=HASH673b681e4d2524d692ae08 P. Oxy. 847] – Oxyrhynchus Online
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090124134351/http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/Fragmentary-Uncials.pdf#page=14 Uncial 0162] at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"

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