Uncial 0166 is a 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;...

 uncial

Uncial

Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic.-Development:...

 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 New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, dated paleographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Acts of the Apostles

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

 28:30-31 (recto); James

Epistle of James

The Epistle of James, usually referred to simply as James, is a book in the New Testament. The author identifies himself as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ", with "the earliest extant manuscripts of James usually dated to mid-to-late third century."There are four views...

 1:11 (verso), on the fragment of one parchment leaf (5 cm by 7.4 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 28 lines per page, in small uncial letters.

The fragment contains 9 lines with 99 letters from 219 original.

Kurt 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...

 the Greek text of this codex

Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with multiple quires or gatherings typically bound together and given a cover.Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement...

  placed in Category III.

Page recto (Acts 28:30-31) ΕΝ]ΕΜ[ΕΙΝΕΝ] ΔΕ ΔΙΕΤΙΑΝ ΟΛΗΝ ΕΝ ΙΔΙΩ ΜΙΣΘΩΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΕΔΕ[ΧΕΤΟ] ΠΑΝΤΑΣ [ΤΟΥΣ] ΕΙΣΠΟΡΕΥΟ[ΜΕ] ΝΟΥΣ ΠΡΟ[Σ ΑΥΤΟΝ] ΚΗΡΥΣ[ΣΩΝ ΤΗΝ [ΒΑΣ]ΙΛ[ΕΙΑΝ]

Page verso (James 1:11) [ΚΑ]Υ[Σ]ΟΝ[Ι] [ΚΑΙ ΕΞΗΡΑΝ]ΕΝ ΤΟ [Ν ΧΟΡΤΟΝ ΚΑ]Ι ΤΟ Α [ΝΘΟΣ ΑΥΤΟΥ] ΕΞΕΠΕ [ΣΕΝ ΚΑΙ] Η ΕΥΠΡΕ [ΠΕΙΑ Τ]ΟΥ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΥ [ΑΥΤΟ]Υ ΑΠΩΛΕΤΟ [ΟΥΤΩΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΠΛΟΥΣΙΟΙΣ [ΕΝ Τ]ΑΙ[Σ ΠΟΡΕΙΑΙΣ]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.
The manuscript was found in Egypt. It is the last uncial manuscript added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory.

The codex currently is housed at the University of Heidelberg (Pap. 1357) in Heidelberg

Heidelberg

-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

.

Further reading

• A. Deissmann, Die Septuagintapapyri und andere altchristliche Texte der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung, (Heidelberg: 1905), p. 85.

External links

• Uncial 0166 at the Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung