Papyrus 22

Papyrus 𝔓²²
New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 1228
Text	John 15-16 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Glasgow University Library
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri’' X, (London 1914), pp. 14-16
Size	18.5 x 5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

**Grenfell and Hunt**

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

Papyrus 22, designated by 𝔓²² (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript 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.

Description

The text was written in two consecutive columns on a roll. The reverse side is blank.^[2] The manuscript employs conventional Nomina Sacra: ΠΣ ΠΝΑ ΠΡΣ ΠΡΑ ΙΗΣ ΑΝΟΣ. 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]

It is currently housed at the Glasgow University Library (MS Gen 1026) in Glasgow.^[1]^[5]

References

^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
^ ^a ^b B. 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.

External links

Fifty Treasures from Glasgow University Library
Images of the codex at the CSNTM

[Aland-1] 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.

[Comfort-2] Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

[Grenfell-3] B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), p. 14.

[4] Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 406.

[INTF-5] "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

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Papyrus 22

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