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Papyrus 75

Name	P. Bodmer XIV-XV
Sign	$\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵
Text	Luke 3:18-24:53 + John 1-15 (extensive portions of,)
Date	175-225
Script	Greek
Found	Pabau, Egypt
Now at	Vatican Library, Rome
Cite	V. Martin, R. Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV
Size	26 cm x 13 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Note	very close to P⁶⁶, B, 0162

Papyrus 75 ( $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV) is an early Greek New Testament papyrus.

Contents

1 Description
2 Text
3 Textual variants
4 See also
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 Images
8 External links

Description

Originally '[it] contained about 144 pages ... of which 102 have survived, either in whole or in part.'^[1] It 'contains about half the text of ... two Gospels'^[2] – Luke (Papyrus Bodmer XIV) and John (Papyrus Bodmer XV) in Greek. It is dated in Nestle-Aland (27th edition, NA27) as being an early third century manuscript. It is one the earliest manuscripts (along with $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁴)^[3] of the Gospel of Luke. 'The surviving fragment contains Luke 3:18-24:53 ...'^[3] ^[4] An unusual feature of this codex is that when the Gospel of Luke ends, the Gospel of John begins on the same page.^[5]

It lacks text of Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43–44).

It uses a staurogram in Luke 14:27.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category I.^[6] The text is closer to Codex Vaticanus than to Codex Sinaiticus. Agreement between $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵ and codex B is 92% in John,^[7] and 94% in Luke.^[8] It concurs with $\mathfrak{P}$ ¹¹¹.^[9]

According to Kurt Aland, $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵ is the key for understanding the primitive textual history of New Testament.^[10]

In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading is supported by Minuscule 705 and Codex Veronensis.^[11]

Textual variants

In Luke 11:4, the phrase αλλα ρυσαι ημας απο του πονηρου (but deliver us from evil) is omitted. The omission of this phrase is also supported by the following manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Codex Regius, f¹, 700, vg, syr^s, cop^{sa, bo}, arm, geo.^[12]

In Luke 16:19 the manuscript reads Ανθρωπος δε τις ην πλουσιος, ονοματι Ν[ιν]ευης, και ενεδιδυσκετο "There was a rich man, with the name N[in]eue, who clothed himself",^[13] This reading has support from the Sahidic version and the two Greek minuscule manuscripts 36 and 37, in addition to a scholion of uncertain date have ευρον δε τινες και του πλουσιου εν τισιν αντιγραφοις τουνομα Νινευης λεγομενον.^[14]

Luke 22:43-44 is omitted, as in codices א*, A, B, T, 1071.^[15]

In Luke 23:34, $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵ has omitted the words: "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts Sinaiticus^a, B, D*, W, Θ, 0124, 1241, it^{a, d}, syr^s, cop^sa, cop^bo.^[16]

Luke 24:26

δοξαν – majority of mss

βασιλειαν – $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵^[17]

John 10,7

η θυρα (door) – majority

ο ποιμην (shepherd) – $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵ cop^sa cop^ac^[18]

The manuscript also lacks the Pericope of the Adulteress, usually placed in Translations at John 7:53-8:11. This omission is supported by the manuscripts Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus and $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁶⁶.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (P. Bodmer XIV-XV) at Rome.^[19]

The discovery of $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵ has had a profound effect on New Testament textual criticism, due to its great agreement with Codex Vaticanus.

References

^ Metzger+Ehrman (2005),p.58
^ Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican
^ ^a ^b Gregory (2003) p.28
^ Wilker
^ Edwards (1976), p. 194
^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. http://books.google.com/?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
^ S. A. Edwards, P75 Under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, XVIII, fasc. 3, pp. 211-212.
^ Gordon D. Fee, $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵, $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁶⁶, and Origen: THe Myth of Early Textual Recension in Alexandria, in: E. J. Epp & G. D. Fee, Studies in the Theory & Method of NT Textual Criticism, Wm. Eerdmans (1993), pp. 247-273.
^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.
^ Reconsidering $\mathfrak{P}$ 75 in the Frame of a Various Egyptian Tradition
^ NA26, p. 181
^ UBS3, p. 256.
^ Philip Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (2001), p. 551.
^ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitaitons, Clarendon Press: Oxford 1977, p. 136.
^ UBS3, p. 305.
^ UBS4, p. 311.
^ NA26, p. 244
^ NA26, p. 282
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10075. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Bibliography

V. Martin, R. Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV: Evangiles de Luc et Jean, Vol. 1, Papyrus Bodmer XIV: Evangile de Luc chap. 3-24; vol. 2, Papyrus Bodmer XV: Evangile de Jean chap. 1-15, Cologny-Geneva: Biblioteca Bodmeriana, 1961.
Gregory, A. The Reception of Luke and Acts in the Period Before Irenaeus, Mohr Siebeck, (2003) ISBN 3-16-148086-4, p.28
Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The text of the New Testament: its transmission, corruption, and restoration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 58–9. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
Aland, Kurt (2009). "Neue Neutestamentliche Papyri III". New Testament Studies 22 (04): 375–96. doi:10.1017/S0028688500010080.
Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 501–608. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Images

Image of a page of Papyrus 75 (accessed 2007-09-26)
98 images of $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵

External links

Edwards, SA (1976), Sarah Alexander Edwards, P75 under the Magnifying Glass, Novum Testamentum, Vol. 18, Fasc. 3. (Jul., 1976), pp. 190-212.
Robert B. Waltz. NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri $\mathfrak{P}$ ⁷⁵.
Bodmer Papyrus 14-15 arrives at the Vatican (accessed 2007-09-26)
Willker, Wieland. A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, (undated+unfinished)

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