Papyrus 68

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Papyrus 𝔓68
New Testament manuscript
Text1 Corinthians 4; 5 †
Date7th century
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt
Now atRussian National Library
CiteK. Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), pp. 265-267
Typemixed
CategoryIII

Papyrus 68 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓68, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. The surviving texts of 1 Corinthians are verses 4:12-17; 4:19-5:3. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 7th century.[1]

Text[edit]

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.[1]

Location[edit]

It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Gr. 258B) in Saint Petersburg.[1][2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Further reading[edit]

  • Kurt Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), pp. 265–267.
  • Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin, 1966), p. 109.

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