Name That NT Manuscript (#3)

9/29/2014

I have received some good feedback about these little manuscript "quizzes" so we'll keep them going until you all get bored! For this week, I have included a manuscript dear to my heart. This papyrus has been in my hands on more than one occasion. Note: this papyrus is not a continuous manuscript of the NT. So, which NT manuscript is this? What is interesting to you about this particular piece? Does anything odd stand out? Feel free to discuss or comment in the comments section below.

Update: So, several people nailed it on the head: this is P.Yale I 3 (P50). As I mention in the comments to this post, I had the privilege in 2010 of examining this papyrus on several occasions. For those interested in the knowing more about the strange lines on the first folio, see my comments below.

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2 Comments

Tim link

09/30/2014 2:28pm

These are fun. Did the last one but didn't comment.
What's going on before 10:14 there? Before "ho de Petros"? For a second I thought the scribe was calling himself a "fool" for screwing something up, but it's not the right spelling.

Brice C. Jones link

09/30/2014 10:11pm

Thanks, Tim! You have drawn attention, in my mind, to the most interesting aspect of this papyrus. Probably, the scribe drew the first horizontal line to separate the text of Acts 8 from that of Acts 10, but he realized that he left one word out. So, he wrote that word under the first line (ἄφωνος), drew another line, then began with the next scriptural unit. But there are lots of neat features of this bifolium, including the fact that the sheets were closed soon after production, evidenced by the ink mirrored from the opposite page in many places. When I was at Yale in 2010, I got to examine P50, along with a whole bunch of other papyri, including P49. These were great experiences which I shall never forget.

Name That NT Manuscript (#3)

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