Papyrus 50

From Textus Receptus

Papyrus 50 (Gregory-Aland), designated by ⁵⁰, may be an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 8:26-32; 10:26-31. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3th/4th century.^[1] Elijah Hixson suggests that the manuscript may possibly be a forgery based on anomalies in line spacing, some text seeming to wrap around lacunae, and serious issues with fiber alignment in the papyrus. He also proposes that if it is indeed fake, Kirsopp Lake is a likely suspect.^[2] The Greek text of this codex is mixed. It has some orthographical peculiarities and corrections. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1] The text generally concurs with Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus.^[3]

The nomina sacra are contracted (ΙΛΗΜ, ΠΝΑ, ΑΝΟΣ, ΑΝΟΝ, ΘΣ, ΘΥ, ΚΥ).^[4]

The manuscript was purchased in Paris by Yale University in 1933 along with other manuscripts of Egyptian provenance.⁵ The text of the codex was published in 1937 by Carl H. Kraeling.^[6]

Papyrus 50; Acts 10:26-31

It is currently housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (P.CtYBR inv. 1543) in New Haven.^[1]^[7]^[8]

References

1. 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. 99.
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3. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 69.
4. Carl H. Kraeling, Two Selections from Acts, in: Lake F/S, p. 169.
5. Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, Tyndale House Publishers, 2001, p. 362.
6. Carl H. Kraeling, Two Selections from Acts, in: Lake F/S, pp. 163-172.
7. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
8. Beinecke papyrus database

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