Papyrus 72 (𝔓
72, ''
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
Jude may refer to:
People Biblical
* Jude, brother of Jesus, who is sometimes identified as being the same person as Jude the Apostle
* Jude the Apostle, an apostle also called Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus, the patron saint of lost causes in the ...
,
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
The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament of the Bible.
The text identifies the author as "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ" and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but most criti ...
. 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
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 ...
.
Description
Papyrus 72 is the earliest known manuscript of these epistles, though a few verses of Jude are in a fragment
78 (P. Oxy. 2684).
P.Bodmer VII (Jude) and P.Bodmer VIII (
1-
2 Peter
The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament of the Bible.
The text identifies the author as "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ" and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but most criti ...
) 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 CompañĂa Editorial.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-type
In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations.
Over ...
. 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]
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 ...
*
Bodmer Library
The Bodmer Foundation (French: ''Fondation Bodmer'') is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious editions. It is located in Cologny, Switzerland just outside Geneva.
Also known as Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (or Bodmer Librar ...
Notes
References
Further reading
* 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,
𝔓72' and the Vatican's website. https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pap.Bodmer.VIII
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