Papyrus 44
| New Testament manuscript | |
 Fragments containing Matthew 25:8-10; John 10:8-14. | |
| Text | Matthew 17-18,25 and John 10 |
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| Date | 6th/7th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Cite | W. E. Crum, H. G. Evelyn-White, The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition Publications IV, (New York, 1926), pp. 120-121. |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | II |
Papyrus 44 (in Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓44, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of John. It contains Matt. 17:1-3.6-7; 18:15-17.19; 25:8-10 and John 10:8-14. Fragments of the Gospel of John formerly known as Papyrus 44b (containing 9:3-4; 12:16-18) have been reclassified as Papyrus 128. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 6th or 7th century.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
It is currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in New York.[1][2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- W. E. Crum, H. G. Evelyn-White, The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition Publications IV, (New York, 1926), pp. 120–121. (transcription and collation).
- Ellwood M. Schofield, The Papyrus Fragments of the Greek New Testament, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1936, pp. 296–301.
External links
[edit]- Papyrus 44 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 14.1.527
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