Papyrus 44 Explained

Papyrus 44 (in Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ⁴⁴, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of John. It contains Matt. 17:1-3.6-7; 18:15-17.19; 25:8-10 and John 10:8-14. Fragments of the Gospel of John formerly known as Papyrus 44b (containing 9:3-4; 12:16-18) have been reclassified as Papyrus 128. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 6th or 7th century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1]

It is currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in New York.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• W. E. Crum, H. G. Evelyn-White, The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition Publications IV, (New York, 1926), pp. 120–121. (transcription and collation).
• Ellwood M. Schofield, The Papyrus Fragments of the Greek New Testament, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1936, pp. 296–301.

External links

• Papyrus 44 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 14.1.527

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 . 98 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 26 August 2011. Münster.