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The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]] (rather proto-Alexandrian). [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category I|Category I]]. According to Aland it represents a "normal text".<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, and [[Barbara Aland]], ''The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism'', trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]], Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 97.</ref> This manuscript displays a closest agreement with [[Papyrus 75|𝔓<sup>75</sup>]] (in 7 out of 10 variants).<ref name = Comfort/> According to Grenfell and Hunt it is closer to [[Codex Sinaiticus|Sinaiticus]] |
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]] (rather proto-Alexandrian). [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category I|Category I]]. According to Aland it represents a "normal text".<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, and [[Barbara Aland]], ''The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism'', trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]], Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 97.</ref> This manuscript displays a closest agreement with [[Papyrus 75|𝔓<sup>75</sup>]] (in 7 out of 10 variants).<ref name = Comfort/> According to Grenfell and Hunt it is closer to [[Codex Sinaiticus|Sinaiticus]] than to [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|Vaticanus]]. Only in one case it supports [[Codex Alexandrinus]] against Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (John 6:11).<ref name = Grenfell/> Grenfell and Hunt noted that text is not "very correctly spelled". It has five unique readings. In John 6:10 it has πεντακισ]χιλειοι, ελεβεν instead of ελαβεν, in 6:19 ενγυς instead of εγγυς, in 6:20 φοβεισθαι instead of φοβεισθε, in 6:22 ιδεν instead of ειδεν.<ref>Peter M. Head, [http://www.bsw.org/Biblica/Vol-85-2004/The-Habits-Of-New-Testament-Copyists-Singular-Readings-In-The-Early-Fragmentary-Papyri-Of-John/183/article-p406.html ''The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John''], Biblica 85 (2004), p. 406.</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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 |
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]
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 than 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 πεντακισ]χιλειοι, ελεβεν instead of ελαβεν, in 6:19 ενγυς instead of εγγυς, in 6:20 φοβεισθαι instead of φοβεισθε, in 6:22 ιδεν instead of ειδεν.[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]