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A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the
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. To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament. This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century. The grouping was first introduced by
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, who assigned papyri texts the
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character 𝔓 followed by a superscript number. This number refers not to the age of the papyrus, but to the order in which it was registered.Law 2012, p. 95 Before 1900, only 9 papyri manuscripts were known, and only one had been cited in a
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( by
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). These 9 papyri were just single fragments, except for , which consisted of a single whole leaf. The discoveries of the twentieth century brought about the earliest known New Testament manuscript fragments.
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in 1912 knew 14 papyri, Aland in his first edition of ''Kurzgefasste...'' in 1963 enumerated 76 papyri, in 1989 were known 96 papyri, and in 2008 124 papyri. As of 2021, a total of 141 papyri are known, although some of the numbers issued were later deemed to be fragments of the same original manuscript. Among the most important are the Chester Beatty Papyri: , which contains the Gospels and Acts; , which contains the Pauline epistles; and , which contains the Book of Revelation. All of these date from sometime in the third century. Also significant are the Bodmer Papyri: , which contains the Gospel of John; and , which contains the Gospels of Luke and John. These early manuscripts are more complete, allowing scholars to better examine their textual character. Not all of the manuscripts are simply New Testament texts: , , , are texts with commentaries; , , and are
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; , , and are talismans; and , , , , , and belong to other miscellaneous texts, such as writing scraps, glossaries, or songs.Nestle-Aland 1996, p. 85 Every papyrus is cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece.


List of all registered New Testament papyri

* The P-numbers are the standard system of Gregory-Aland. * Dates are estimated to the year range shown. * Content is given to the nearest chapter; verses are sometimes listed. Thus, many of the papyri are small fragments, not whole chapters. For instance, contains 5 verses out of the 40 verses in John chapter 18. * Digital images are referenced with direct links to the hosting web pages. The quality and accessibility of the images is as follows:


Papyrus 1–50


Papyrus 51–100


Papyrus 101–


Distribution based on content

Note: "Early" manuscripts are manuscripts dated firmly from the fourth century or earlier. Roughly half of the papyri are "early". Some manuscripts contain content from more than one New Testament book, so the numbers above do not directly correspond to the total number of manuscripts.


See also

; Lists *
Categories of New Testament manuscripts New Testament manuscripts in Greek are categorized into five groups, according to a scheme introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in ''The Text of the New Testament''. The categories are based on how each manuscript relates to the vari ...
*
List of artifacts significant to the Bible The following is a list of inscribed artifacts, items made or given shape by humans, that are significant to biblical archaeology. Selected artifacts significant to biblical chronology These table lists inscriptions which are of particular sign ...
* List of Egyptian papyri by date * List of New Testament uncials *
List of New Testament minuscules The list of New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory-Aland index number is divided into three sections: * List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) * List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000) * List of New Testament minuscules (2001– ...
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List of New Testament lectionaries A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* List of New Testament amulets *
List of New Testament Latin manuscripts The following articles contain lists of New Testament manuscripts: In Coptic * List of Coptic New Testament manuscripts In Greek * List of New Testament papyri * List of New Testament uncials * List of New Testament minuscules ** List of N ...
* List of New Testament Church Fathers ; Other articles * Novum Testamentum Graece *
Oxyrhynchus papyri The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
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Palaeography Palaeography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, UK) or paleography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") ...
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Papyrology Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...
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Textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...


Notes


References

* * Nestle-Aland, '' Novum Testamentum Graece''. 27th ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1996 * K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ''Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments'', (Berlin, New York:
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, 1994), p. 3-17.
"Continuation of the Manuscript List"
'' INTF'', University of Münster. Retrieved February 4, 2010 * Nestle-Aland. '' Novum Testamentum Graece''. 27th ed. ''
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'', Druck: 1996, p. 57-63, 684-689 * Law, David R. ''The Historical-Critical Method: A Guide for the Perplexed'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.


External links

* Dr. J. Lyle Story, professor of Biblical Languages
NT Source Documents & History - Papyri
Retrieved February 27, 2020 *Seid, Timothy

''Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts.'' Retrieved June 22, 2007. * Peter M. Head

* Waltz, Robert

''A Site Inspired By: The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism.'' Retrieved on June 22, 2007. * Willker, Wieland

Last Update: 17 April 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
New Testament Transcripts Prototype
* Wieland Willker
''A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels: Fragmentary papyri''

Images of manuscripts

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