Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓65, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty. According to Philip Comfort, 𝔓49 and 𝔓65 came from the same manuscript.Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.Klaus Wachtel, Klaus Witte, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: Gal., Eph., Phil., Kol., 1. u. 2. Thess., 1. u. 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Hebr, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. LXI.
Location It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).
See also
List of New Testament papyri
References
Further reading Brent Nongbri, "A Papyrus Codex of Paul’s Letters in Greek: Another Look at PSI XIV 1373 (P65) and P.Yale I 2 + II 86 (P49)," Novum Testamentum 66 (2024), pp. 499–514, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10082 Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7. Naldini, Documenti, no. 17.
Images Papyrus 65