Papyrus 24

Papyrus 24 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓²⁴, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation, it contains only Revelation 5:5-8; 6:5-8. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 4th century.[1]

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$²⁴

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Name	P. Oxy. 1230
Text	Revelation 5-6 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Franklin Trask Library Andover Newton Theological School
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 18-19
Size	[19 by 28 cm]
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Description

Originally it was written on a large leaf (approximately 19 by 28 cm). It is the earliest manuscript which has survived to the present day with the text of Rev. 5-6.[2] It uses letter Ζ for επτα (seven).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.[1] This manuscript exhibits textual agreement with Papyrus 18, Papyrus 47, and Codex Sinaiticus, but the surviving fragment is too small to determine its overall textual affinities.[2]

It is currently housed at the Franklin Trask Library Andover Newton Theological School (OP 1230) in Newton, Massachusetts.[1][3]

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  recto - Revelation 5:5-8
• 
  verso - Revelation 6:5-8

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Revelation 5, 6

References

1. 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.
2. Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 115.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 18–19.

External links

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

• Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, 𝔓²⁴.' Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• P24 images at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts