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 one leaf with the text of the Gospel of 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 (originally 25 lines). It uses the nomina sacra, but incomplete. The handwriting is quite similar to P. Oxy. 1358. Originally it had 13 cm by 20 cm.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I. According to Aland it represents a "normal text".[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]
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