Papyrus 28

Papyrus 28 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓²⁸, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only one leaf with the text of the Gospel of John 6:8-12.17-22. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the late 3rd century.[1]

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}^{28}}$

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
John 6:8-12
Name	P. Oxy. 1596
Text	John 6 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Collection of Gifford Combs
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), pp. 8-10
Size	10 cm by 5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	semi-uncial
Note	close to א

Description

The text is written in medium-sized semi-uncial.[2] It is a single leaf, written in 12 lines per page (originally 25 lines). It uses the nomina sacra, but incomplete. The handwriting is quite similar to P. Oxy. 1358. Originally it had 13 cm by 20 cm.[1] Text is written in 25 lines per page.[2]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I. According to Aland it represents a "normal text".[3] This manuscript displays a closest agreement with 𝔓⁷⁵ (in 7 out of 10 variants).[1] According to Grenfell and Hunt it is closer to Vaticanus than to Sinaiticus. Only in one case it supports Codex Alexandrinus against Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (John 6:11).[2] Grenfell and Hunt noted that text is not "very correctly spelled". It has five unique readings. In John 6:10 it has πεντακισ]χιλειοι, ελεβεν instead of ελαβεν, in 6:19 ενγυς instead of εγγυς, in 6:20 φοβεισθαι instead of φοβεισθε, in 6:22 ιδεν instead of ειδεν.[4]

History

The manuscript was found together with 3rd-4th century documents.[2]

It was housed at the Pacific School of Religion (Pap. 2) in Berkeley, California[3][5] until it was sold in 2015 to a private collector, Gifford Combs, and is now housed in Los Angeles (Collection of Gifford Combs).[6][7]

See also

• John 6
• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
2. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), p. 8.
3. 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. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), p. 406.
5. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
6. Tommy Wasserman. "Papyrus 28 Sold to Private Collector Gifford Combs". The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
7. Gregg Schwendner. "Private acquisition of NT papyrus (P.Oxy. XIII 1596 = NT P28)". Papyrology blog. Retrieved 28 April 2015.

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri OP XIII, (London 1919), pp. 8–10.

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, 𝔓²⁸.

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt