Papyrus 70
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| form = Papyrus | number = 𝔓70 | image = Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Ms P. Oxy. 2384 (Papyrus 70) recto Matt 11, 26-27.jpg | isize = | caption=Oxford fragment recto, Matt 11:26-27 | name = P. Oxy. 2384 | sign = | text = Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 † | script = Greek | date = 3rd century | found = Egypt | now at = Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence) | cite = E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5. | size = 15 x 25 cm | type = Alexandrian text-type | cat = I | hand = carelessly written | note =
Papyrus 70 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. It is designated by the siglum in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. 𝔓70 has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.
; Text The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.
; Present location It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420). File:Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Ms P. Oxy. 2384 (Papyrus 70) verso Matt 12, 4-5.jpg|Oxford fragment verso, Matt 12:4-5 File:Florence, National Archaeological Museum MS PSI inv.3407 (Papyrus 70) fragment a recto Matt 2, 22-3, 1.jpg|Florence fragment a recto, Matt 2:22-3:1 File:Florence, National Archaeological Museum MS PSI inv.3407 (Papyrus 70) fragment a verso Matt 2, 13–16.jpg|Florence fragment a verso, Matt 2:13–16 File:Florence, National Archaeological Museum MS PSI inv.3407 (Papyrus 70) fragment b recto Matt 24, 3-6.jpg|Florence fragment b recto, Matt 24:3-6 File:Florence, National Archaeological Museum MS PSI inv.3407 (Papyrus 70) fragment b verso Matt 24, 12-15.jpg|Florence fragment b verso, Matt 24:12-15.
References
Images
- High Resolution Digital images of P. Oxy. XXIV online at the University of Oxford's "P. Oxy Online"
- Digital Images of online at the CSNTM.
References
- Comfort, Philip Wesley. (2005). "Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism". Broadman & Holman Publishers.
- (1995). "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism". [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]].
- "Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 70". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
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