Papyrus 50 Explained

Papyrus 50 (Gregory-Aland), designated by ⁵⁰, is an early copy of a small part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 8:26-32; 10:26-31. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 3rd/4th century. Elijah Hixson suggests that the manuscript may possibly be a forgery based on anomalies in line spacing, some text seeming to wrap around lacunae, and serious issues with fiber alignment in the papyrus.^[1]

Description

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. It has some orthographical peculiarities and corrections. Aland placed it in Category III.^[2] The text generally concurs with Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.^[3]

The nomina sacra are contracted (

ΙΛΗΜ, ΠΝΑ, ΑΝΟΣ, ΑΝΟΝ, ΘΣ, ΘΥ, ΚΥ).^[4]

The manuscript was purchased in Paris by Yale University in 1933 along with other manuscripts of Egyptian provenance.^[5] The text of the codex was published in 1937 by Carl H. Kraeling.^[6]

It is currently housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (P.CtYBR inv. 1543) in New Haven.^{[2] [7] [8]}

See also

• Acts of the Apostles: chapter 8 and 10
• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Carl H. Kraeling, Two Selections from Acts, in: Robert P.Casey, Silva Lake i Agnes K. Lake: Studies Presented to KIBSOPP LAKE by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends. 1937, s. 163–172.
• Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, Tyndale House Publishers, 2001, p. 362-364.

External links

• Image ⁵⁰ recto
• Image ⁵⁰ verso

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hixson. Elijah. 1 February 2021. Possible Markers of Inauthenticity in a Greek New Testament Papyrus (Elijah Hixson). 1 February 2021. YouTube.
2. 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 . 99 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
3. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 69.
4. [Carl H. Kraeling]
5. [Philip W. Comfort]
6. [Carl H. Kraeling]
7. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 26 August 2011. Münster.
8. http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/papyrus/oneSET.asp?pid=1543 Beinecke papyrus database