Papyrus 10 Explained

Papyrus 10 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 10 and named Oxyrhynchus papyri 209, is an early copy of part of the New Testament content in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, dating paleographically to the early 4th century.[1]

Description

The manuscript is a fragment of one leaf, written in one column per page. The surviving text is of Romans, verses 1:1-7. The manuscript was written very carelessly. The handwriting is crude and irregular, and the copy contains some irregular spellings. A part of verse 6 is omitted (εν οις εστε και υμεις κλητοι who are called to belong to).[2]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.[1] The manuscript is too brief for certainty. The only variant of any importance is Χριστου Ιησου in Rom 1:7, where the manuscripts all have the reverse order.[3]

History

The papyrus was found tied up with a contract dated in 316 A.D., and other documents of the same period.[2]

It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and is currently housed at the Houghton Library of the Harvard University (Semitic Museum Inv. 2218), Cambridge (Massachusetts).[1] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Aland . Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 96 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (1899), p. 8.
  3. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (1899), p. 9.
  4. Web site: Handschriftenliste. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 23 August 2011. Münster.