Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781

Papyrus 5 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. It is designated by the siglum in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the early 3rd century. The papyrus is housed in the British Library. It has survived in a very fragmentary condition, which has resulted in differing ways of transcribing the text.

Description The manuscript is a fragment of three leaves, written in one column per page, 27 lines per page. The surviving text of John are verses ,; ; ,,.

It was written in a documentary hand, in a round, upright uncial of medium size. It uses the nomina sacra throughout (sacred names, these being words/titles considered sacred in Christianity), with the following ones extant: / (Ιησους/Iesous/Jesus), / / (πατηρ/pater/Father), (θεος/theos/God), though with ανθρωπος written out in full, and not as a nomen sacrum.

There is a tendency to brevity, especially in omitting unnecessary pronouns and conjunctions.

Text Transcription of the text according to the reconstruction of papyrologist and Biblical scholar Philip W. Comfort.

[leaf 1 verso ()]

[leaf 1 recto ()]

[leaf 2 recto ()]

[leaf 2 verso ()]

[leaf 3 recto ()]

[leaf 3 verso ()]

Scribes and Correctors In "οι δε" was added superlineary; αυ was deleted by dots above the letters.

In "ο" was added superlineary.

In αυτω was added superlineary.

In και was added superlineary.

Textual character In it reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts , א, b, e, ff, syr.

In at line 7 of the recto of the second fragment there appears to be extra space which would require some additional material.

In , λυπηθησεσθε originally read λουπηθησεσθε, to which the scribe corrected to λυπηθησεσθε. In , λυπην originally read λοιπην, to which the scribe corrected to λυπην. In , it singularly omits εγω. In the scribe originally omitted και, but then added it superlinearly later on.

At line 19 of the third folio of the recto () the missing fragment is difficult for a reconstruction. Grenfell and Hunt remarked that there is no space for the ordinary reading ο λεγεται διδασκαλε because a line should have 34 letters, which is too long. Grenfell and Hunt rejected another possible reading διδασκαλε, which is found in Codex Bezae (possible conflation), and proposed alone, because Domine is found in Codex Vercellensis and in Codex Usserianus I, but in the reconstructed text of the manuscript they did not decide to include this proposed variant to the text: αρω [λεγει αυτη μαριαμ στραφει [σα εκεινη λεγει αυτω εβραιστι ραβ β[ουνι . . . . . . . . . . . λεγει αυτη

All the editors agree that the space is insufficient for ο λεγεται διδασκαλε (John 20,16) but alone is too short and it is not supported by any Greek manuscript. Elliott and Parker have suggested ο λεγεται .Elliott & Parker, The New Testament in Greek IV. The Gospel according to St. John, volume 1, The Papyri (Leiden: Brill, 1995), 34. It was supported by Biblical scholar Peter Head. Comfort proposed μου though this reading is not supported by any known Greek manuscript. It is close for διδασκαλε of Codex Bezae and Old-Latin Magister Domine or Domine.UBS3, p. 410.

The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Western text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a "Normal text", and placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system. It stays in close agreement with Codex Sinaiticus against Codex Vaticanus (e.g. .; ..; ). "This agreement is unfortunately obscured by mutilation".

History The manuscript was discovered at the end of the 19th century by Grenfell and Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. The first and third leaves were published in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II (1899), no. 208. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory classified it under number 5 on his list.C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1085. The second leaf () was published in 1922 as Oxyrhynchus no. 1781.Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament", London, 1912, p. 42.

It was examined by Grenfell, Hunt, Karl Wessely,Karl Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme, PO 4/2 (1907), pp. 145–148. Schofield, and Comfort.

It is currently housed at the British Library (Inv. nos. 782, 2484) in London.

See also John 1, John 16, John 20 List of New Testament papyri Oxyrhynchus papyri Oxyrhynchus Papyri 159 through 207 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 209

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