Greek
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uncial
Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for ...
manuscript
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of the
New Testament
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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 ...
28:30-31 (recto);
James
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1:11 (verso), on the fragment of one parchment leaf (5 cm by 7.4 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 28 lines per page, in small uncial letters.
It has breathings and accents.
The fragment contains 9 lines with 99 letters from 219 original.
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and Biblical studies, biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the ''Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Institut für neutest ...
the Greek text of this
codex
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INTF
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to the 5th century.
The manuscript was found in Egypt. It is the last uncial manuscript added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory.
The codex currently is housed at the
University of Heidelberg
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(Pap. 1357) in
Heidelberg
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.
See also
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List of New Testament uncials
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called ''Biblical Uncial'' or ''Biblical Majuscule''.
New Testament uncials are distinct fr ...
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Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...
References
Further reading
* A. Deissmann, ''Die Septuaginta-Papyri und andere altchristliche Texte. Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung'', (Heidelberg: 1905), p. 85.