Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781
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New Testament manuscript |
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| Name | P. Oxy. 208 |
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| Text | John 1; 16; 20 † |
| Date | ~250 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Oxyrhynchus, Egypt |
| Now at | British Library |
| Cite | Grenfell & Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II, 1899, pp. 1 ff; XV, pp. 8-12. |
| Size | 12.5 cm by 25 cm |
| Type | Western text-type |
| Category | I |
| Hand | documentary hand |
| Note | close to Codex Sinaiticus |
Papyrus 5 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 5, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John dating palaeographically to the early 3rd century. The papyrus is housed in the British Library. It has survived in a very fragmentary condition.
The text of the manuscript was reconstructed several times. Textually it is very close to Codex Sinaiticus, but with some exceptions.
The manuscript is a fragment of three leaves, written in one column per page, 27 lines per page. The surviving text of John are verses 1:23-31.33-40; 16:14-30; 20:11-17.19-20.22-25.
It was written in a documentary hand, in a round, upright uncial of medium size. It uses the nomina sacra with abbreviations (ΙΗΝ ΙΗΣ ΠΡ ΠΡΑ ΠΡΣ ΘΥ), though not for ανθρωπος.
There is a tendency to brevity, especially in omitting unnecessary pronouns and conjunctions.
According to reconstruction of Philip W. Comfort
In John 1:38 "οι δε" was added superlineary; αυ was deleted by dots above the letters.
In John 16:19 "ο" was added superlineary.
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