Papyrus 127 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓
127, is a copy of a small part 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
The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire.
Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...
.
Description
The surviving texts of Acts are verses 10:32-35, 40–45; 11:2-5, 30; 12:1-3, 5, 7–9; 15:29-31, 34–36, (37), 38–41; 16:1-4, 13–40; 17:1-10, they are in a fragmentary condition.
P. Oxy. LXXIV 4968
Oxyrhynchus Online The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (INTF
The Institute for New Testament Textual Research ( — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its Greek initial text on the basis of the entire manuscri ...
). Written in two columns per page, between 22 and 26 lines per page (originally).
See also
* List of New Testament papyri
A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.
This elite status amo ...
* Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrology, papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient Landfill, rubbish dump near Oxyrhync ...
* Biblical manuscript
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References
Sources
*D.C. Parker, S.R. Pickering, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIV, London 2009, 1-45, Pl. II-V
External links
Continuation List
Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...
. Retrieved March 29, 2010
P.Oxy.LXIV 4968
from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
* G. Gäbel
“The Text of P127 (P.Oxy. 4968) and its Relationship with the Text of Codex Bezae”
''Novum Testamentum'' 53, 2011, 107–152.
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New Testament papyri
5th-century biblical manuscripts
Acts of the Apostles papyri