Papyrus 98

Papyrus 98

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Apocalypse 1:13-2:1
Name	P. IFAO inv. 237b [+a]
Sign	${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$98
Text	Book of Revelation 1:13–2:1
Date	2nd century
Script	Greek
Found	1971
Now at	French Institute of Oriental Archeology
Size	15 cm × 16 cm
Note	in bad condition

Papyrus 98 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹⁸, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to years "100–200 (?)".

The surviving text of Revelation includes verses 1:13–2:1 in a fragmentary condition. The script is well-formed and large. It was formed in a scroll. The biblical text is on the side verso. On the recto is another documentary text dated to the end of the 1st century or the beginning of the 2nd century. Side verso of the scroll was used for the biblical text at the end of the 2nd century.

It has an error of dittography in the first line – περι̣εζωσμμ̣εν̣ον instead of περιεζωσμενον.

It is still not placed in any of Aland's Categories of New Testament manuscripts. "The text shows several differences from that printed in Nestle-Aland 27th".

[Recto]

In Rev 1:18 it lacks the phrase και ο ζων as Latin Codex Gigas and some manuscripts of Vulgate. It is the only Greek manuscript not containing this phrase.

Probably the manuscript was written in Egypt.

The first publisher was Wagner in 1971, who did not know that it was a biblical text. Hagedorn discovered that it was the text of Rev. 1:13–2:1.

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