Papyrus 8
From Textus Receptus
Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 
8, or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 4:31-37; 5:2-9; 6:1-6.8-15. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.[]
The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.[]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[]
The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.[]
It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. no. 8683) in Berlin.[]
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References
Further reading
- C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), pp. 1087-1090.
- C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament, p. 46.
- A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.
