Papyrus 38 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓38, is an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 18:27-19:6.12-16. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century.[1]
| New Testament manuscript | |
 | |
| Text | Acts 18-19 † |
|---|---|
| Date | ca. 220 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | University of Michigan |
| Cite | H. A. Sanders."A Papyrus Fragment of Acts in the Michigan Collection", HTR, vol. 20. 1927, pp. 1-19. |
| Size | 14 x 27 |
| Type | Western text-type |
| Category | IV |
Although the text is quite short, the Greek text of this codex has been called a representative of the Western text-type. Aland named it as Free text and placed in Category IV. The text of this manuscript is related to Codex Bezae.[2]
The manuscript was purchased in Cairo in 1924.[1]
It is now in the University of Michigan (Inv. 1571) in Ann Arbor.[2][3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 145.
- ^ a b Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
Further reading
edit- Henry A. Sanders, A Papyrus Fragment of Acts in the Michigan Collection, Harvard Theological Review. vol. 20. 1927, pp. 1–19.
- A. C. Clark, The Michigan Fragment of Acts, JTS XXIX (1927), pp. 18–28.
- Silva New, The Michigan Papyrus Fragment 1571, in Beginnings of Christianity V (1933), pp. 262–268.
- M.-J. Lagrange, Critique textuelle II, La Critique rationelle (Paris, 1935), pp. 402–405.
- Henry A. Sanders, Michigan Papyri, University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, XL (Ann Arbor, 1936), pp. 14–19.