Papyrus 77 Explained

Papyrus 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ⁷⁷, is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew verses 23:30-39. It is written in Greek and has palaeographically been assigned a date anywhere from the middle 2nd century to the early 3rd century.^[1]

According to Comfort, Papyrus 77 together with Papyrus 103 probably belong to the same codex.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as an “at least normal text”, and placed it in Category I.^{[3] 77} has the closest affinity with Codex Sinaiticus.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy. 2683) in Oxford.^{[3] [4]}

Textual Variants

• 23:30: Rearranges the words αυτων κοινωνοι (their partners) to κοινωνοι αυτων ('partners of them').
• 23:37: Has variant spelling ορνιξ for ορνις (hen).
• 23:37: Originally omitted και from the text. Scribe added it later superlinearly between πτερυγας and ουκ.
• 23:38: According to the transcription from the University of Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research, the scribe omitted ερημος (desolate).^[5] According to the transcription of Philip Comfort and David Barrett however, the scribe included it.^[6]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Matthew 23

Further reading

• L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, Peter Parsons, and John Rea, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXXIV (London: 1968), pp. 4–6.
• Book: Comfort , Philip W. . Philip Comfort . David P. Barrett . The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Tyndale House Publishers . 2001 . Wheaton, Illinois . 609–611 . 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Images

• P.Oxy.LXVI 2683 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• Papyrus 77 recto
• Papyrus 77 verso

Notes and References

1. Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts pp 609
2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
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 . 100 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 27 August 2011. Münster.
5. http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/AnaServer?book01+28582+trmain.anv+pageview=yes Institute for New Testament Textual Research
6. Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts, pp. 611