Papyrus 29 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓
29, is an early copy of the
New Testament
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in
Greek
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. It is a
papyrus
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manuscript
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of the Acts of the Apostles which contains Acts 26:7-8 and 26:20. The manuscript Palaeography, paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century.
Description
The Greek text of this codex is too short to put in a family. Grenfell and Hunt noticed its agreement with Codex Bezae, Minuscule 1597, 1597, and some Old-Latin manuscripts. According to Kurt Aland, Aland it is a "free text" and it was placed by him in Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category I, Category I.
According to Bruce M. Metzger and David Alan Black
[David Alan Black, ''New Testament Textual Criticism'', Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.] the manuscript might be related to the Western text-type, but Philip Comfort stated "the fragment is too small to be certain of its textual character".
[
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library, Gr. bibl. g. 4 (P) in Oxford.]
See also
* Acts 26
* List of New Testament papyri
References
Further reading
* Bernard Pyne Grenfell, B. P. Grenfell & Arthur Surridge Hunt, A. S. Hunt
''Oxyrynchus Papyri'' XIII
(London 1919), pp. 10–12.
External links
Oxyrhynchus 1597
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New Testament papyri
3rd-century biblical manuscripts
Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
Bodleian Library collection
Acts of the Apostles papyri