Papyrus 13, designated by siglum 𝔓13 or P13 in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament in Greek. It was copied on papyrus in the 3rd century at approximately 225-250 CE.[1]
| New Testament manuscript | |
 Portions of two columns of P13, beginning with Hebrews 4:2. Note the surviving numbering at the top of the left column. | |
| Name | P. Oxyrhynchus 657 |
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| Text | Hebrews 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17 |
| Date | 225-250 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Oxyrhynchus, Egypt |
| Now at | British Library/Egyptian Museum |
| Cite | Grenfell & Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri 4:36-48. (#657) |
| Size | 12 columns of scroll; 23-27 lines/column; pagination legible: 47-50, 61-65, 67-69. |
| Type | Alexandrian, often agrees with Vaticanus; 80% with Papyrus 46 |
| Category | I |
| Note | largest papyrus other than Chester Beatty collection |
Description
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Papyrus 13 was discovered by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is currently housed at the British Library, Inv. Nr. 1532, and Egyptian Museum, SR 3796 25/1/55/2 (11), or PSI 1292.[2][3][4]
The surviving text is twelve columns, of 23 to 27 lines each, from a scroll. This is all from the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17. Its presence of pagination 47-50 means that Hebrews was preceded by only one book in the original scroll, likely the Epistle to the Romans as in Papyrus 46.[1] It is the largest papyrus manuscript of the New Testament outside the Chester Beatty Papyri.
It was written on the back of a papyrus containing the Epitome of Livy and some scholars think the manuscript was possibly brought to Egypt by a Roman official and left behind when he left his post.[5]
Text
editPapyrus 13 is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.[2]
It bears strong textual affinity with Codex Vaticanus, and also has an 80% agreement with Papyrus 46. It has numerous distinctive readings.[2]
Papyrus 13 is written recto-verso, with the verso (back) containing Hebrews and the recto (front) containing part of Livy's History of Rome, dated to around 200 AD.[7]
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British Library
Papyrus 1532 -
British Library
Papyrus 1532 -
Cairo Egyptian Museum
PSI 1292
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp 83.
- ^ 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. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ^ PSI XII 1292 at PSIonline
- ^ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), p. 85.
- ^ C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1091.
- ^ Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 83–92. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
Further reading
edit- B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1904). Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV. London. pp. 36–48.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Vittorio Bartoletti and M. Norsi, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. 12 (1951), p. 209-210 (PSI 1292).
- Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 47.
External links
edit- Aland, K and Aland, B (1995), The Text of the New Testament, p. 97, Trans. Rhodes, EF, Pub. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-4098-1
- Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri P13.' Image of P13