Family Π is a group of

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

manuscripts, and is one of the textual families which belongs to the majority

Byzantine text-type In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main Textual criticism#New Testament, text types. ...

. The name of the family, "Π" (pronounced in English as "pie"), is drawn from the symbol used for the manuscript known as Codex Petropolitanus. One of the most distinctive of the Byzantine sub-groups, it is the third largest and has the oldest Byzantine manuscripts belonging to it. Textual critic

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

designated this group by the symbol ''K''. According to him, its text is not purely Byzantine.

Codices and manuscripts

The following manuscripts were included in this group by von Soden: Cyprius (K), Petropolitanus (Π), 72, 114, 116, 178, 265, 389, 1008, 1009, 1079, 1154, 1200, 1219, 1346, and 1398. Biblical scholar

Kirsopp Lake Kirsopp Lake (7 April 187210 November 1946) was an English New Testament Biblical scholar, scholar, Church history, Church historian, Palaeography#Greek Palaeography, Greek palaeographer, and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard ...

added to this group these manuscripts: 489, 537, 652, 775, 796, 904, 1478, 1500, 1546, 1561, 1781, 1816. von Soden also associated

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII) is a manuscript of the Greek Bible,The Greek Bible in this context refers to the Bible used by Greek-speaking Christians who lived in Egypt and elsewhere during the early ...

with this group, however biblical scholar Silva New demonstrated that though it shares several readings, Codex Alexandrinus is not related to the group. Frederik Wisse lists about 150 witnesses of the family, but the majority of them belong to this family only in some parts of their text. The

Peshitta The Peshitta ( ''or'' ') is the standard Syriac edition of the Bible for Syriac Christian churches and traditions that follow the liturgies of the Syriac Rites. The Peshitta is originally and traditionally written in the Classical Syriac d ...

, in the Gospels, represents this family. There are several manuscripts which are related to the family, such as Minuscule 706 and 2278. Based on a study on the Pericope Adultera, biblical scholar Tommy Wasserman found Family Π to include 581, 1272, 1306, 1571, 1627, 1690, 1699, and 2463.

Group profile

According to the

Claremont Profile Method The Claremont Profile Method is a method for classifying ancient manuscripts of the Bible. It was elaborated by Ernest Cadman Colwell and his students. Professor Frederik Wisse attempted to establish an accurate and rapid procedure for the classi ...

group Π has following profile in Luke 1, 10, and 20:The word before the bracket is the reading of the UBS edition; the readings which are not bold are those of the

Textus Receptus The (Latin for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) and including the editions of Robert Estienne, Stephanus, Theodore Beza, Beza, the House of Elzevir ...

. * Luke 1:2 (1 reading) — ] * Luke 1:8 (4) — ] * Luke 1:17 (12) — ] + * Luke 1:22 (14) — ] * Luke 1:39 (30) — ] * Luke 1:44 (34) — ] * Luke 1:61 (41) — ] * Luke 10:1 (1 reading) — ] * Luke 10:2 (8) — ] + * Luke 10:6 (15) — ] + * Luke 10:11 (22) — ] omit * Luke 10:12 (23) — ] + * Luke 10:16 (30) — ] * Luke 10:17 (32) — ] * Luke 10:22 (33) — ] * Luke 10:22 (38) — ] * Luke 10:32 (47) — ] omit * Luke 10:32 (48) — ] + * Luke 10:35 (53) — ] + ' * Luke 10:36 (57) — ] * Luke 10:41 (63) — (or ) ] * Luke 20:1 (2 reading) — ] omit * Luke 20:1 (4) — ] * Luke 20:3 (8) — ] * Luke 20:3 (9) — (=TR) ] * Luke 20:9 (19) — ] omit * Luke 20:10 (23) — ] * Luke 20:12 (24) — ] * Luke 20:14 (26) — ] * Luke 20:14 (28) — ] + * Luke 20:19 (33) — ] + * Luke 20:19 (34) — ] * Luke 20:28 (50) — ] * Luke 20:34 (61) — ] (ΤR reads: ) * Luke 20:35 (62) — ] (ΤR reads: ) * Luke 20:36 (64) — ] omit * Luke 20:37 (65) — ] * Luke 20:41 (70) — ] + * Luke 20:44 (74) — ] * Luke 20:44 (75) — ] .

Codices and manuscripts

Group profile

See also

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References

Further reading