Papyrus 80
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80, is an early copy of the New Testament
in Greek
. It is a papyrus
manuscript
of the Gospel of John
. The surviving text of John is verse 3:34.
The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.
Text
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type
, but text is too brief too determine its textual character.
Aland
placed it in Category I (because of its date).
Location
It is currently housed at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista
(Inv. no. 83) in Barcelona
.
80, is an early copy of the New TestamentNew Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
in Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
. It is a papyrus
Papyrus
Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....
manuscript
Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...
of the Gospel of John
Gospel of John
The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...
. The surviving text of John is verse 3:34.
The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.
Text
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type
Alexandrian text-type
The Alexandrian text-type , associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts...
, but text is too brief too determine its textual character.
Aland
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...
placed it in Category I (because of its date).
Location
It is currently housed at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista
Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista
The Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista , was founded in 1952, in Barcelona, by Ramón Roca Puig , Spanish papyrolog and priest from Catalonia, who several times travelled to the Near East , where acquired some important ancient manuscripts.The collection contains works of the ancient authors, like:...
(Inv. no. 83) in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
.
Further reading
- R. Roca-Puig, Papiro del evangelio de San Juan con ‘Hermeneia’, in Atti dell’ XI Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Milan: 1966), pp. 225-236.