Papyrus 65

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Papyrus

| number = 𝔓⁶⁵

| image = Papyrus65.jpg

| isize =

| caption=

| name =

| sign =

| text = 1 Thessalonians 1-2 †

| script = Greek

| date = 3rd century

| found = Egypt

| now at = National Archaeological Museum (Florence)

| cite = V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.

| size =

| type = Alexandrian text-type

| cat = I

| hand =

| note =

}}

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁶⁵, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.

; Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty.{{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=100

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC

|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to Philip Comfort, 𝔓⁴⁹ and 𝔓⁶⁵ came from the same manuscript.Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.Klaus Wachtel, Klaus Witte, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gEzctvICPS0C&pg=RA1-PA1&lpg=RA1-PA1&dq= Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: Gal., Eph., Phil., Kol., 1. u. 2. Thess., 1. u. 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Hebr], Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. LXI.

; Location

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10065|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=26 August 2011|location=Münster}}

File:Papiro con frammento della prima lettera di paolo ai tessalonicesi, III-IV secolo (PSI 2491).jpg