Papyrus 65

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁶⁵

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	1 Thessalonians 1-2 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁶⁵, 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.^[1]

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.^[1] According to Comfort ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁴⁹ and ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁶⁵ came from the same manuscript.^[2][3]

Location

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).^[1][4]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

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. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.
3. 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.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Further reading

• Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7.
• Naldini, Documenti, no. 17.

Images

• Papyrus 65