Papyrus 13
{{short description|3rd century biblical manuscript}}
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = Papyri 𝔓13
| image = Papyrus13.jpg
| caption= 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
| 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
| cat = I
| hand =
| note = largest papyrus other than Chester Beatty collection}}
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.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.
Description
{{Grenfell and Hunt}}
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.{{Cite book
|last1=Aland
|first1=Kurt
|author-link=Kurt Aland
| last2 = Aland
| first2 = Barbara
| author-link2 = Barbara Aland
| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
|title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
|publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
|year=1995
|location=Grand Rapids
|page=97
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&pg=PA97
|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10011|title=Handschriftenliste|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=23 August 2013|location=Münster}}[http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;12;1292 PSI XII 1292 at PSIonline]
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. 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.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.
It has errors of itacism (ι and ει, ε and αι, υ and οι).C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1091.
Text
Papyrus 13 is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.
It bears strong textual affinity with Codex Vaticanus, and also has an 80% agreement with Papyrus 46. It has numerous distinctive readings.
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.{{Cite book
| last = Comfort
| first = Philip W.
| author-link = Philip Comfort
|author2=David P. Barrett
| title = The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
| publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
| year = 2001
| location = Wheaton, Illinois
| pages = 83–92
| isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}}
{{gallery
|width=150| height=200 |File:Papyrus 13 - British Library Papyrus 1532 - Epistle to the Hebrews - 1.jpg
|British Library
Papyrus 1532
|File:Papyrus 13 - British Library Papyrus 1532 - Epistle to the Hebrews - 2.jpg
|British Library
Papyrus 1532
|File:Papyrus PSI 1292 - Papyrus 13, P. Oxy. IV 657 - Epistle to the Hebrews 10,8–22 - Egyptian Museum, Cairo.jpg
|Cairo Egyptian Museum
PSI 1292
}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book
| last1 = B. P.
| first1 = Grenfell
| author-link = Bernard Pyne Grenfell
| last2 = Hunt
| first2 = A. S.
| author-link2 = Arthur Surridge Hunt
| title = Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV
| year = 1904
| location = London
| pages = 36–48
| url = https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspapyr04gren#page/36/mode/2up
}}
- Vittorio Bartoletti and M. Norsi, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. 12 (1951), p. 209-210 (PSI 1292).
- {{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1908
| location = Leipzig
| page = 47
| url = https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n57/mode/2up
}}
External links
- Aland, K and Aland, B (1995), [https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&dq=%22evangelien+fragmente+auf+papyrus%22&pg=PA97 The Text of the New Testament], p. 97, Trans. Rhodes, EF, Pub. Wm. B. Eerdmans. {{ISBN|0-8028-4098-1}}
- Robert B. Waltz. [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/ManuscriptsPapyri.html#P13 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri P13.'] Image of P13
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Category:3rd-century biblical manuscripts