Papyrus 28 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓28, is an early copy of the New TestamentinGreek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only John 6:8-12. 17-22. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.[1]
New Testament manuscript | |
Name | P. Oxy. 1596 |
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Text | John 6 † |
Date | 3rd century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Oxyrhynchus, Egypt |
Now at | Pacific School of Religion |
Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), pp. 8-10 |
Size | 10 cm by 5 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | I |
Hand | semi-uncial |
Note | close to א |
Written in medium sized semi-uncial.[2] It is a single leaf, written in 12 lines per page. It uses the nomina sacra, but incomplete.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.[3] This manuscript displays a closest agreement with 𝔓75 (in 7 out of 10 variants).[1] According to Grenfell and Hunt it is closer to Sinaiticus then to Vaticanus. Only in one case it supports Codex Alexandrinus against Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (John 6:11).[2] Grenfell and Hunt noted that text is not "very correctly spelled". It has five unique readings. In John 6:10 it has "pentakis xileioi", "eleben" instead of "elaben", in 6:19 "enguj" instead of "egguj", in 6:20 "fobeisqai" instead of "fobeisqe", in 6:22 "iden" instead of "eiden".[4]
The manuscript was found together with 3rd-4th century documents.[2]
It is currently housed at the Pacific School of Religion (Pap. 2) in Berkeley.[3]