Papyrus 75 (
75,
Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XIV-XV) is an early
New Testament papyrus.
Originally '[it] contained about 144 pages ... of which 102 have survived, either in whole or in part.' It 'contains about half the text of ... two Gospels' -
LukeThe Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from the events of his birth to his Ascension...
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Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XIV) and
JohnThe Gospel of John , is the last of the four canonical gospels. This non synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth...
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Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XV) in
GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
. It is dated in Nestle-Aland (27th edition, NA27) as being an early third century
manuscriptA biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
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Papyrus 75 (
75,
Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XIV-XV) is an early
New Testament papyrus.
Description
Originally '[it] contained about 144 pages ... of which 102 have survived, either in whole or in part.' It 'contains about half the text of ... two Gospels' -
LukeThe Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from the events of his birth to his Ascension...
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Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XIV) and
JohnThe Gospel of John , is the last of the four canonical gospels. This non synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth...
(
Papyrus BodmerThe Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200. The papyri...
XV) in
GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
. It is dated in Nestle-Aland (27th edition, NA27) as being an early third century
manuscriptA biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
. It is one the earliest manuscripts (along with
𝔓4Papyrus 4 is an early New Testament papyri of the Gospel of Luke in Greek. It is dated as being a late 2nd/early 3rd century manuscript. It is one the earliest manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke and contains extensive sections of its first six chapters...
) of the
Gospel of LukeThe Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from the events of his birth to his Ascension...
. 'The surviving fragment contains Luke 3:18-24:53 ...' . "An unusual feature of this codex is that Luke ends and John begins on the same page."
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-typeThe Alexandrian text-type is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts...
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Kurt AlandKurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. For many years he was head of the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung and the principal editor of the Nestle-Aland edition of Novum Testamentum Graece .- Life :Aland was born...
placed it in Category I.
The text is closer to Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 than to
Codex SinaiticusCodex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters...
. Agreement between
75 and codex B is 92% in John, and 94% in Luke. It concurs with
Papyrus 111Papyrus 111 , designated by 111, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Luke. The surviving texts of Luke are verses 17:11-13; 17:22-23, they are in a fragmentary condition.- Description :The manuscript paleographically had been assigned by...
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Textual variants
In Luke 11:4 phrase (
but deliver us from evil) is omitted. Omission is supported by the manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus,
Codex RegiusCodex Regius designated by Le or 019 , ε 56 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century.- Description :...
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f1Family 1 is a group of the Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 12th to the 15th century. The group takes its name from the minuscule codex 1, now in the Basel University Library. "Family 1" is also known as "the Lake Group", symbolized as f1. Hermann von Soden calls the...
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700Minuscule 700 , ε 133 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament. Formerly it was labelled as 604 in all catalogs , Gregory gave for it number 700....
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vgThe Vulgate is an early 5th-century Latin version of the Bible, largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of old Latin translations...
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copsa, boThere have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the New Testament in all four of the major dialects of Coptic: Bohairic , Fayyumic, Sahidic ,...
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In Luke 16:19 the manuscript reads Ανθρωπος δε τις ην πλουσιος, ονοματι Ν[ιν]ευης, και ενεδιδυσκετο "There was a rich man, with the name N[in]eue, who clothed himself", This reading has Sahidic version and two Greek minuscule manuscripts
36Minuscule 36 , A20 . It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.- Description :...
and
37Minuscule 37 , A154 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.- Description :...
, besides a scholium of uncertain date have ευρον δε τινες και του πλουσιου εν τισιν αντιγραφοις τουνομα Νινευης λεγομενον.
Luke 22:43-44 omitted, as in codices א*,
AThe Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th century 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 history of Christianity...]
, B,
TCodex Borgianus, designated by T or 029 , ε 5 , is a Greek and Sahidic uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated paleographically to the 5th century...
, 1071.
In Luke 23:34 omitted words: "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts
SinaiticusaCodex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters...
, B,
D*The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis, designated by Dea or 05 , δ 5 , is an important codex of the New Testament dating from the fifth-century. It is written in an uncial hand on vellum and contains, in both Greek and Latin, most of the four Gospels and Acts, with a small fragment of the Third...
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WThe Codex Washingtonianus or Codex Washingtonensis, designated by W or 032 , ε 014 , also called the Washington Manuscript of the Gospels, and The Freer Gospel, contains the four biblical gospels and was written in Greek on vellum and palimpsest in the fourth or fifth century.- Description :The...
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ΘThe Codex Koridethi, also named Codex Coridethianus, designed by Θ, 038, or Theta , ε 050 , is a 9th century manuscript of the four Gospels. It is written in Greek with uncial script in two columns per page. There are gaps in the text: Matthew 1:1–9, 1:21–4:4, and 4:17–5:4 are missing.The letter...
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0124Uncial 070 , ε 6 , is a Greek-Coptic diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 6th century....
, 1241, it
aThe title Codex Vercellensis , symbolized by a or 3, refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Province of Vercelli, Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between Milan and Turin....
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The manuscript is currently housed at the
Vatican LibraryThe Vatican Library is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts. Formally established in 1475, though in fact much older, it has 75,000 codices from...
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The discovery of
75 had a profound effect on New Testament
textual criticismTextual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
, because of its great agreement with Codex Vaticanus.
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External links
- Edwards, SA (1976), Sarah Alexander Edwards, P75 under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, Vol. 18, Fasc. 3. (Jul., 1976), pp. 190-212
- Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri 75.
- Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican (accessed 2007-09-26)
- Willker, Wieland. A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, (undated+unfinished)