Papyrus 22, designated by 𝔓22 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early copy of the New TestamentinGreek. It is a papyrusmanuscript of the Gospel of John, only containing extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. Using the study of comparative writings styles, (palaeography), the manuscript has been dated to the early 3rd century CE.[1] It is the only identified New Testament papyrus to have been written originally as a roll; not a codex or re-using the back of a scroll.
The text was written in two consecutive columns on a roll. The reverse side is blank.[2] The manuscript employs conventional Nomina Sacra: ΠΣΠΝΑΠΡΣΠΡΑΙΗΣΑΝΟΣ. The text contains no punctuation marks.[3]
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland described it as a normal text and placed it in Category I.[1] This manuscript displays an independent text.[2] Coincidences with the Codex Sinaiticus are frequent, but divergences are noticeable.[3] There are no singular readings.[4] According to Schofield the fragment rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place.[2]
^ abcComfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 109. ISBN978-0-8423-5265-9.
^ abB. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), p. 14.
^Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 406.
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
