Papyrus 72 (𝔓⁷², '' Papyrus Bodmer VII-VIII'') is the designation used by textual critics of the New Testament to describe portions of the so-called Bodmer Miscellaneous codex, namely the letters of Jude,

1 Peter The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament. The author presents himself as Peter the Apostle. The ending of the letter includes a statement that implies that it was written from " Babylon", which is possibly a reference to Rome ...

, and 2 Peter. These books seem to have been copied by the same scribe, and the handwriting has been paleographically assigned to the 3rd or 4th century. Although the letters of Jude ( P.Bodmer VII) and 1-2 Peter ( P.Bodmer VIII) in this codex do not form a single continuous text, scholars still tend to refer to these three texts as a single early New Testament papyrus.

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Papyrus 72 is the earliest known manuscript of these epistles, though a few verses of Jude are in a fragment

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⁷⁸ (P. Oxy. 2684). P.Bodmer VII (Jude) and P.Bodmer VIII ( 1- 2 Peter) form part of a single book (the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex). This book appeared on the antiquities market in Egypt and was bought by the Swiss collector Martin Bodmer. The same scribe who copied P.Bodmer VII and VIII is also thought to have copied P.Bodmer X and XI. The manuscript contains the usual

nomina sacra In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: ''nomen sacrum'' from Latin ''sacred name'') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists ...

for Messiah, Jesus, God, Lord, Spirit, Father, plus a few non-standard ones: (power), Σα (Sarah), Αβμ (Abraham), (Noah), (Archangel Michael), and Εχ (Enoch). A facsimile edition of Bodmer Papyrus VIII was published in 2007 by Testimonio Compañía Editorial.

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The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Aland in 1-2 Peter it has normal text, in Jude free text, both with certain peculiarities. Aland placed it into I Category. It is close to the

Codex Vaticanus The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...

and

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

.Aland and Aland, ''The Text of the New Testament'' (2nd ed.), 100

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* Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. The Text of the New Testament. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. * Beare, FW (1961
''The Text of I Peter in Papyrus 72''
Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 80, No.3, pp. 253–260. * Wasserman, Tommy. "Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex," New Testament Studies 51, (2005), 137–154. * Jones, Brice C.
Crosby-Schøyen Codex">The Bodmer 'Miscellaneous' Codex and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex
MS 193: A New Proposal" '' Bodmer 'Composite' or 'Miscellaneous' Codex." ''Novum Testamentum'' 58 (2016), 394–410. * Kubo, Sakae. ''𝔓72 and the Codex Vaticanus''. Studies and Documents 27. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965. * Strickland, Phillip David. 2017.
The Curious Case of 𝔓72: What an Ancient Manuscript Can Tell us about the Epistles of Peter and Jude.
''Journal of the Evangelical Society'' 60.4:781-792. * Images available for viewing at CSNTM,
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