Papyrus 22
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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = {{papyrus|22}}
| image = Papyrus 22 - Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1228 - Glasgow University Library, MS Gen 1026-13 - Gospel of John 15,25–16,2.21–32.jpg
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| name = P. Oxy. 1228
| sign =
| text = John 15-16 †
| script = Greek
| date = 3rd century
| 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
| cat = I
| hand =
| note =
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{{Grenfell and Hunt}}
Papyrus 22 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is designated by {{papyrus|22}} (in the Gregory-Åland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), and is a papyrus manuscript containing text from the Gospel of John. Using the study of comparative writings styles, (palaeography), the manuscript has been dated to the early 3rd century CE.{{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 | page=97 | year=1995 | publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | location=Grand Rapids | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&pg=PA97 | isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}} 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 original manuscript was likely a roll, and currently only has extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. The text is written in two consecutive columns, with the reverse side of the roll being blank.{{Cite book | last=Comfort | first=Philip Wesley | author-link=Philip Comfort | author2=David P. Barrett | title=The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts | pages=109 | year=2001 | publisher=Tyndale House Publishers | location=Wheaton, Illinois | isbn=978-0-8423-5265-9}} The manuscript employs conventional Nomina Sacra: {{overline|ΠΣ}} {{overline|ΠΝΑ}} {{overline|ΠΡΣ}} {{overline|ΠΡΑ}} {{overline|ΙΗΣ}} {{overline|ΑΝΟΣ}}. The text contains no punctuation marks.{{Cite book | first1=Bernard Pyne | last=Grenfell | author1-link=Bernard Pyne Grenfell | first2=Arthur Surridge | last2=Hunt | author2-link=Arthur Surridge Hunt | title=The Oxyrynchus Papyri | volume=10 | page=14 | year=1914 | publisher=Egypt Exploration Fund | location=London | url=https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchusppt1000grenuoft#page/14/mode/2up}}
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Åland described it as a normal text and placed it in Category I.{{r|Aland}} This manuscript displays an independent text.{{r|Comfort}} Coincidences with the Codex Sinaiticus are frequent, but divergences are noticeable.{{r|Grenfell}} There are no singular readings.Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 406. According to Reverend Ellwood Schofield, the papyrus "rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place."{{r|Comfort}}{{Cite thesis | first=Ellwood Mearle | last=Schofield | title=The Papyrus Fragments of the Greek New Testament | page=198 | date=1936 | publisher=South Baptist Theological Seminary | url=https://repository.sbts.edu/handle/10392/5087 | access-date=29 Oct 2024}}
History
The papyrus was found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and was originally published by Papyrologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Volume 10, designated as P. Oxy. 1228.{{r|Schofield|Comfort}} To determine its palaeographical dating, Grenfell and Hunt compared the graphical writing style to P. Oxy 654, which according to papyrologist Philip Comfort "can be dated confidently to the mid-third century."{{r|Grenfell|Comfort}} Comfort states that though the writing style of {{papyrus|22}} is "a bit heavier", it should be dated to the same time period.{{r|Comfort}} It is currently housed at the Glasgow University Library (MS Gen 1026) in Glasgow.{{r|Aland}}{{Cite web | title=P22: Liste Handschriften | publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date=23 August 2011 | location=Münster | url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10022}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/papyrus.html Fifty Treasures from Glasgow University Library]
- [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_P22 Images of the codex] at the CSNTM
{{New Testament papyri}}
{{Gospel of John}}
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Category:3rd-century biblical manuscripts
Category:University of Glasgow Library collection