Papyrus 20

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Papyrus 20 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>²⁰, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, but it only contains Chapter 2:19-3:9. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the early 3rd century.<ref name = Aland/>

Contents 1 Description 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

Description

The original size of the leaves was 17 by 12 cm.

The text is neatly written in upright semi-cursive letters. The main Nomina Sacra are used, but πατηρ/pater/father and ανθρωπος/anthropos/man are written out in full.<ref name = Grenfell>B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), p. 9.</ref>

The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland 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. 97.</ref> This manuscript shows the greatest agreement with Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus,<ref name = comfort>Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 106. </ref> but not with codices C, L and other late Alexandrian manuscripts.<ref name = Grenfell/>

Philip Comfort has conjectured that the scribe who wrote <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>²⁰ was also the same scribe who wrote <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>²⁷, where the Greek letters α, β, δ, ε, λ, ι, μ, ν, ο, π, ρ, σ, ψ, υ, φ, ω are formed identically in both manuscripts.<ref name = comfort/>

It is currently housed at the Princeton University Library (AM 4117) in Princeton.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Princeton Papyri

References

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri IX, (London 1912), pp. 9-11.

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>²⁰
• Images of the <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>²⁰ at the Princeton University Library Papyrus
• P. Oxy. 1171 at the Oxyrhynchus Online