Papyrus 70

Papyrus 𝔓⁷⁰

New Testament manuscript
Oxford fragment recto, Matt 11:26-27
Name	P. Oxy. 2384
Text	Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5.
Size	15 x 25 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	carelessly written

Papyrus 70 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓⁷⁰ in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. 𝔓⁷⁰ has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.^[2]

Present location

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence)^[2] (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).^[3]

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  Oxford fragment verso, Matt 12:4-5
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  Florence fragment a recto, Matt 2:22-3:1
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  Florence fragment a verso, Matt 2:13–16
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  Florence fragment b recto, Matt 24:3-6
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  Florence fragment b verso, Matt 24:12-15.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri

References

1. Comfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers. p. 69.
2. 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. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
3. "Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 70". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Images

• High Resolution Digital images of P. Oxy. XXIV online at the University of Oxford's "P. Oxy Online"
• Digital Images of 𝔓¹⁰⁷ online at the CSNTM.

Further reading

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXIV (London: 1957), pp. 4–5.
• M. Naldini, Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo, Prometeus 1 (Florence: 1975), pp. 195–200.
• Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 473–477. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.