Papyrus 12
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Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 
12), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews, it contains only Hebrews 1:1. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.<ref>Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. (Nashville, 2005), p. 61. </ref>
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On the top of the second column another writer has penned Hebrews 1:1 in three lines.<ref name = Comfort>Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 82. </ref> It has been written in a small uncial hand.<ref name = Grenfell>B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), p. 30. </ref> On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuaginta.<ref name = Comfort/>
Text:
- πολυμερος κ πολυ[τρο]πος
- παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα
- σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις]<ref name = Grenfell/>
It has error of itacism (παλε), the nomina sacra contracted (θς).
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. 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>
It supports textual variant with ημων as in codices 46c Codex Vercellensis Liber Comicus Codex Parisiensis Vulgatemss Peshitta.<ref>NA26, p. 563. </ref>
The manuscript was discovered in 1897.<ref name= Comfort/>
It is currently housed at the The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.<ref name = Aland/>
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References
Further reading
- B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 30-31 (P. Amherst 3 b).
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