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Papyrus 2

Papyrus 𝔓²

New Testament manuscript
Text	John 12:12-15; Luke 7:22-26,50
Date	c. 550
Found	Egypt
Now at	Museo Archeologico, Florence, Inv. Nr. 7134
Cite	E. Pistelli, 'Papiri evangelici', Rivista di Studi Religiosi 6 (1902): 69-70.
Size	fragment
Type	mixed
Category	III

Papyrus 2 (𝔓²) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic. It is a papyrus fragment of a copy of the Gospel of John dating to the sixth century. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum, Florence (Inv. no. 7134).^[1] There is a portion of Luke 7:22-26.50 in Coptic on the reverse of the fragment.

The fragment appears to be from a lectionary.^[2] The text type is a mixed.^[3] Aland placed it in Category III.^[4]

The name of Jerusalem (usually ιεροσολυμα, Ierosolyma) is given the variant spelling ιερου[σο]λ̣υ̣[μα] (Ierousolyma).

Ermenegildo Pistelli dated the manuscript to the 5th or 6th century; Ernst von Dobschütz to the 6th or 7th century.^[5]

See also[edit]

• John 12
• List of New Testament papyri
• Luke 7
• New Testament papyrus
• Coptic versions of the Bible

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Aland, Kurt und Barbara Aland. Der Text des Neuen Testaments. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1981.
• Maldfeld, Georg and Metzger, Bruce M. "Detailed List of the Greek Papyri of the New Testament," Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 68, No. 4. (Dec., 1949) pp. 359–370.

External links[edit]

• 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. Second edition. Translated by Erroll F Rhodes. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989.
• New Testament Transcripts
• GA Papyrus 2. Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
• Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 45.