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| Name | P. Amherst 3b |
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| Text | Epistle to the Hebrews1 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt 1897 |
| Now at | The Morgan Library & Museum |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b) |
| Size | 20,8 cm x 23 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type ? |
| Category | I |
Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum 𝔓12, is an early copy of the New TestamentinGreek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[1]
The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines.[1]: 82 It has been written in a small uncial hand.[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint.[1]
It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (ΘΣ).
The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[3]
It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices 𝔓46c a t v vgmss syrp.[4]
The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.[1]
It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.[3][5][6]
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