Papyrus 31
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| form = Papyrus
| number = 𝔓31
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| text = Romans 12 †
| script = Greek
| date = 7th century
| found = Egypt
| now at = John Rylands Library
| cite = A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9
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| type = Alexandrian
| cat = II
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Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓31, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains only Romans 12:3-8. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 7th century. The reverse side is blank. It is possible that it was used as a talisman. Hunt suggested it was a lectionary.
Description
Written in medium-sized sloping uncial letters. It seems to have been copied for reading in church.A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.{{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}}Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, DBS 1982, p. 168 An agreement with Codex Sinaiticus against the other chief MSS is observable in l. 9 of the fragment (v. 8).
Papyrus 31 presents unique readings in l. 3 (v. 4) and l. 4 (v. 5) against the other chief MSS.Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany. {{Cite web|url=http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/|title= New Testament Transcripts Prototype}}
It is currently housed with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library (Gr. P. 4) in Manchester.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10031|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=26 August 2011|location=Münster}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- A. S. Hunt, [https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofgreek01johnuoft#page/8/mode/2up Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library] I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9.
External links
- {{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=9 March 2011|location=Münster}}
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