Papyrus 15
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = π15
| image = Papyrus 15 - Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1008 - Cairo Egyptian Museum JE 47423 - First Epistle to the Corinthians 7,18β8,4.jpg
| isize =
| caption=
| name = P. Oxy. 1008
| sign =
| text = 1 Corinthians 7-8 β
| script = Greek
| date = 3rd century
| found = Egypt
| now at = Egyptian Museum
| cite = B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8
| size = 26.5 x 14 cm
| type = Alexandrian text-type
| cat = I
| hand =
| note =
}}
Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by π15, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was originally a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline Corpus of letters, but now only contains 1 Corinthians 7:18-8:4.{{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
| page = 95
| isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}} The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century.{{Cite book
| last = Comfort
| first = Philip W.
|author2=David P. Barrett
| title = The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
| publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
| year = 2001
| location = Wheaton, Illinois
| page = 93
| isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}}
Description
The manuscript is written in a documentary hand. There are about 37-38 lines per page. Grenfeld and Hunt conjectured that π15 and π16 might have been part of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same formation of letters, line space, and punctuation.
The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.{{Cite book
|last=Aland
|first=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}} It was the last papyrus classified by Gregory, in 1915. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum (JE 47423) in Cairo.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10015|title=Handschriftenliste|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=23 August 2011|location=MΓΌnster}}
See also
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References
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Further reading
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, [https://archive.org/stream/pt7oxyrhynchuspa00grenuoft#page/4/mode/2up The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII], (London 1910), pp. 4β8.
External links
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- [http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.7&d=HASHf4150af583a6c277a50c76 P. Oxy. 1008] β image
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Category:3rd-century biblical manuscripts