Papyrus 15 Explained

Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ¹⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was originally a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline Corpus of letters, but now only contains 1 Corinthians 7:18-8:4.^[1] The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century.^[2]

Description

The manuscript is written in a documentary hand.^[2] There are about 37-38 lines per page.^[2] Grenfeld and Hunt conjectured that ¹⁵ and ¹⁶ might have been part of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same formation of letters, line space, and punctuation.^[1]

The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.^[3] It was the last papyrus classified by Gregory, in 1915. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum (JE 47423) in Cairo.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4–8.

External links

• P. Oxy. 1008 – image

Notes and References

1. Book: Comfort , Philip W. . Philip Comfort . David P. Barrett . The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Tyndale House Publishers . 2001 . Wheaton, Illinois . 95 . 978-0-8423-5265-9.
2. Book: Comfort , Philip W. . David P. Barrett . The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Tyndale House Publishers . 2001 . Wheaton, Illinois . 93 . 978-0-8423-5265-9.
3. 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 . 97 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. Web site: Handschriftenliste. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 23 August 2011. Münster.