Papyrus 115
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Papyrus  115 | |
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Red arrow points to χις (616), "number of the beast" in P115 | |
| Name | P. Oxy. 4499 |
| Text | Rev 2-3, 5-6, 8-15 |
| Date | c. 275 |
| Found | Oxyrynchus, Egypt |
| Now at | Ashmolean Museum |
| Cite | Juan Chapa, Oxyrynchus Papyri 66:11-39. (#4499) |
| Size | 26 fragments; 15.5 x 23.5 cm; 33-36 lines/page |
| Type | Alexandiran, close agreement with A & C |
| Category | I |
| Note | "number of beast" is 616 |
Papyrus 115 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering designated by 115, or P. Oxy. 4499) is a New Testament papyrus written in Greek. It consists of 12 fragments of a papyrus codex which contains parts of the Book of Revelation. It dates from the mid to late third century, around 225-275 CE.[1] Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt discovered the papyrus at Oxyrynchus, Egypt. This particular manuscript was not deciphered and published until the end of the twentieth century and is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Description
The original codex had 33-36 lines per page of 15.5 cm by 23.5 cm. The surviving text includes 2:1-3, 13-15, 27-29; 3:10-12; 5:8-9; 6:5-6; 8:3-8, 11-13; 9:1-5, 7-16, 18-21; 10:1-4, 8-11; 11:1-5, 8-15, 18-19; 12:1-5, 8-10, 12-17; 13:1-3, 6-16, 18; 14:1-3, 5-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-20; 15:1, 4-7.[2]
The text-type is Alexandrian. 115 follows the text of Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C).[3] A curiosity of this text is that it gives "the number of the beast" as 616 (chi, iota, stigma (ΧΙϚ)), rather than the majority text — 666 (chi, xi, stigma (ΧΞϚ)).
The nomina sacra are contracted.
See also
References
- ↑ Juan Chapa, Oxy. Pap., 66:11-39, no. 4499
- ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp. 664-677.
- ↑ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 77.
Further reading
- Juan Chapa, Oxyrynchus Papyri 66:11-39. (no. 4499).
- Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001), pp. 664-677.
External links
- Oxford University 'P.Oxy. LXVI 4499'.
- Image of the fragments of P.Oxy. LXVI 4499[1]
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