Papyrus 47

Papyrus 47 (Gregory-Aland), signed by <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁴⁷, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation, it contains Rev. 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; 16:17-17:2. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a Normal text, and placed it in Category I.<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 99. </ref> The text of this manuscript is closest to Codex Sinaiticus, and they are witnesses for one of early textual types of the Book of Revelation.<ref>Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68. </ref> Another type is represented by manuscripts Papyrus 115, Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Ephraemi. It is currently housed at the Chester Beatty Library (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in Dublin.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• F. G. Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III, (London, 1934).

External links

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