Papyrus 23
New Testament manuscript
Papyrus 23, also known as P. Oxy X 1229, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, surviving in a fragmentary condition containing only James 1:10-12,15-18. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓23 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.
01Description
The Nomina sacra are written fully, abbreviations are used only at the end of lines. There has been noticed the occurrence of the ungrammatical αποσκιασματος found also in Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in James 1:17. It is currently housed in the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois (G. P. 1229) in Urbana, Illinois.
02Text
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather proto-Alexandrian). Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system. The manuscript displays the greatest textual agreement with codices Sinaticus (א), Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi, which represent the best text of the Catholic epistles, and then with Codex Vaticanus and 𝔓74.
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- Urbana, Spurlock Museum Ms Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, P.Oxy X 1229 (Papyrus 23) verso James 1, 10–12.jpg by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Urbana, Spurlock Museum Ms Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, P.Oxy X 1229 (Papyrus 23) recto James 1, 15-18.jpg by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
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