Papyrus 127 Explained

Papyrus 127 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ¹²⁷, is a copy of a small part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles.

Description

The surviving texts of Acts are verses 10:32-35, 40–45; 11:2-5, 30; 12:1-3, 5, 7–9; 15:29-31, 34–36, (37), 38–41; 16:1-4, 13–40; 17:1-10, they are in a fragmentary condition.^[1] The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (INTF). Written in two columns per page, between 22 and 26 lines per page (originally).^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri
• Biblical manuscript

Sources

• D.C. Parker, S.R. Pickering, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIV, London 2009, 1-45, Pl. II-V

External links

• Continuation List Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved March 29, 2010
• P.Oxy.LXIV 4968 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• G. Gäbel, “The Text of P127 (P.Oxy. 4968) and its Relationship with the Text of Codex Bezae”, Novum Testamentum 53, 2011, 107–152.

Notes and References

1. http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-4968--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy P. Oxy. LXXIV 4968
2. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 27 August 2011. Münster. 24 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110924222335/http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10127. live.