Papyrus 75

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Papyrus 75 (⁷⁵, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV) is an early New Testament papyrus.

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 Textual variants 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 Images 8 External links

Description

Originally '[it] contained about 144 pages ... of which 102 have survived, either in whole or in part.'^[1] It 'contains about half the text of ... two Gospels'^[2] - Luke (Papyrus Bodmer XIV) and John (Papyrus Bodmer XV) in Greek. It is dated in Nestle-Aland (27th edition, NA27) as being an early third century manuscript. It is one the earliest manuscripts (along with [[Papyrus 4|⁴]])^[3] of the Gospel of Luke. 'The surviving fragment contains Luke 3:18-24:53 ...'^{[3] [4]}. "An unusual feature of this codex is that Luke ends and John begins on the same page."^[5]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category I.^[6] The text is closer to Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 than to Codex Sinaiticus. Agreement between ⁷⁵ and codex B is 92% in John,^[7] and 94% in Luke^[8]. It concurs with Papyrus 111.^[9]

Textual variants

In Luke 11:4 phrase αλλα ρυσαι ημας απο του πονηρου (but deliver us from evil) is omitted. Omission is supported by the manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Codex Regius, f¹, 700, vg, syr^s, cop^{sa, bo}, arm, geo.^[10]

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",^[11] This reading has Sahidic version and two Greek minuscule manuscripts 36 and 37, besides a scholium of uncertain date have ευρον δε τινες και του πλουσιου εν τισιν αντιγραφοις τουνομα Νινευης λεγομενον.^[12]

Luke 22:43-44 omitted, as in codices א*, A, B, T, 1071.^[13]

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 Sinaiticus^a, B, D*, W, Θ, 0124, 1241, it^{a, d}, syr^s, cop^sa, cop^bo.^[14]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library at Rome.

The discovery of ⁷⁵ had a profound effect on New Testament textual criticism, because of its great agreement with Codex Vaticanus.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Bodmer Papyri

References

• 1. Metzger+Ehrman (2005),p.58
• 2. Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican
• 3. a b Gregory (2003) p.28
• 4. Wilker
• 5. Edwards (1976), p. 194
• 6. Kurt Aland, 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. 101.
• 7. S. A. Edwards, P75 Under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, XVIII, fasc. 3, pp. 211-212.
• 8. Fee, GD, 1974,P75, P66 and Origen, in Epp+Fee(1993),Studies in the Theory & Method of NT TC, Eerdmans, Ch.13
• 9. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.
• 10. UBS3, p. 256.
• 11. Philip Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (2001), p. 551.
• 12. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitaitons, Clarendon Press: Oxford 1977, p. 136.
• 13. UBS3, p. 305.
• 14. UBS4, p. 311.

Bibliography

• V. Martin, R. Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV: Evangiles de Luc et Jean, Vol. 1, Papyrus Bodmer XIV: Evangile de Luc chap. 3-24; vol. 2, Papyrus Bodmer XV: Evangile de Jean chap. 1-15, Cologny-Geneva: Biblioteca Bodmeriana, 1961.
• Gregory, A. The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus, Mohr Siebeck, (2003) ISBN 3161480864, p.28
• Metzger,Bruce & Ehrman, Bart, The Text Of The New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, 2005, Oxford University Press, pp. 58-59.
• K. Aland, "Neue neutestamentliche Papyri III", NTS 22 (1976), pp. 375-396.

Images

• Image of a page of Papyrus 75 (accessed 2007-09-26)
• 98 images of <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁷⁵

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 <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>⁷⁵.
• Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican (accessed 2007-09-26)
• Willker, Wieland. A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, (undated+unfinished)