Papyrus 106, designated by 𝔓106 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a fragmentary manuscript of the Gospel of John from the New TestamentinGreek written on papyrus. It contains text from John 1:29-35 & 1:40-46. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned assigned to the early 3rd century.[1] The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library (Papyrology Rooms, shelf number P. Oxy. 4445) at Oxford UniversityinOxford, England.[2]
The manuscript is made of papyrus, and originally would have been around 12.5 cm x 23 cm, with about 35 lines per page.[3] Due to pagination being extant (gamma/Γ (=3) on the front and delta/Δ (=4) on the reverse of the leaf), this indicates that the manuscript was either a single codex of John, or had John at the beginning of a collection.[1]: 33
Despite its fragmentary nature, the text of the manuscript is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather proto-Alexandrian), bearing familiarity to 𝔓66, 𝔓75, Codex Sinaiticus (א), and Vaticanus (B).[1] The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups.[4]: 231–232 These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[4]: 306–307
^ abcComfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman. p. 75.
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
^Comfort, Philip Wesley; Barrett, David P. (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek manuscripts (2 ed.). Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House. p. 645. ISBN0-8423-5265-1.
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