Papyrus 99 (Gregory-Aland), designated by 𝔓⁹⁹, is an early

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with quotations from the

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of the

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. Four leaves have survived. 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. 16.

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This papyrus is part of the

Chester Beatty Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968)Seanad 1985: "Chester Beatty died at the Princess Grace Clinic, Monte Carlo, on 19 January 1968, .. (some sources give this as 20 January). was an American-British mining magnate, p ...

collection. It is usually considered as a glossary with single words and phrases from: * Rom 1:1; * 2 Cor 1:3-6, 1:6-17, 1:20-24, 2:1-9, 2:9-5:13, 5:13-6:3, 6:3-8:13, 8:14-22, 9:2-11:8, 11:9-23, 11:26-13:11; * Gal 1:4-11, 1:18-6:15, 1:14-2:4, 2:4-3:19, 3:19-4:9; * Eph 1:4-2:21, 1:22(?), 3:8-6:24 The text is written in 1 column per page, 27-30 lines per page. It also contains a Latin lexicon and Greek grammar. Elliot calls this papyrus '... a haphazard collection of unconnected verses from the

Pauline letters The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

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could have been a school exercise ...'Elliot (2005), JK, ''Absent witnesses?'', p. 50, in ''The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers'', Gregory, Andrew F. & Tuckett, Christopher Mark,(eds), Oxford University Press, The manuscript is housed at the

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(P. Chester B. Ac. 1499, fol 11–14) in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Papyrus 0099 New Testament papyri 3rd-century biblical manuscripts Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library Epistle to the Romans papyri Second Epistle to the Corinthians papyri Epistle to the Galatians papyri Epistle to the Ephesians papyri

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