Papyrus 20 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓²⁰, is an early copy of the

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. It is a

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of the

Epistle of James The Epistle of James). is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles ( didactic letters) in the New Testament. James 1:1 identifies the author as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes ...

, but it only contains Chapter 2:19-3:9. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the early 3rd century.

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The original size of the leaves was 17 by 12 cm. The text is neatly written in upright semi-cursive letters. The main

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are used, but πατηρ/pater/father and ανθρωπος/anthropos/man are written out in full.B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' IX, (London 1912), p. 9. The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I. This manuscript shows the greatest agreement with

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and Vaticanus, but not with codices Ephraemi, Regius and other late Alexandrian manuscripts. Philip Comfort has conjectured that the scribe who wrote 𝔓²⁰ was also the same scribe who wrote 𝔓²⁷, where the Greek letters α, β, δ, ε, λ, ι, μ, ν, ο, π, ρ, σ, ψ, υ, φ, ω are formed identically in both manuscripts. It is currently housed at the

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(AM 4117) in

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* Robert B. Waltz

''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''

* [http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.9&d=HASH66d3e01e54ed3ca692ae08 P. Oxy. 1171] at the Oxyrhynchus Online
GA Papyrus 20
. Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts {{DEFAULTSORT:Papyrus 0020 New Testament papyri 3rd-century biblical manuscripts Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament

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Epistle of James papyri

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