Papyrus 39

From Textus Receptus

Papyrus 39 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ³⁹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only John 8:14-22. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century. Written by professional scribe, in 25 lines per page, in large, beautiful letters. It has numbered pages.^[1]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.sup>2</sup> <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>^{39 39} shows agreement with Vaticanus and ⁷⁵.^[1] There are no singular readings.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Ambrose Swabey Library (Inv. 8864) in Rochester, New York.^[2]

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

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Biblical manuscript

References

• 1. Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 147.
• 2. 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. 98.
• 3. Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), 399-408

Further reading

• Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV, 1922, pp. 7-8.

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri ³⁹.'
• Text of the ³⁹ with reconstructed lacunae