Papyrus 77

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus 𝔓⁷⁷
New Testament manuscript

Name	P. Oxy. 2683 and 4405
Text	Matthew 23 †
Date	2nd/3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	L. Ingrams, P. Kingston, P. Parsons, and J. Rea, OP XXXIV (1968), pp. 4-6.
Size	4.6 cm x 7 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁷⁷, is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew verses 23:30-39. It is written in Greek and has palaeographically been assigned a date anywhere from the middle 2nd century to the early 3rd century.^[1]

According to Comfort, Papyrus 77 together with Papyrus 103 probably belong to the same codex.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as an “at least normal text”, and placed it in Category I.^[3] 𝔓⁷⁷ has the closest affinity with Codex Sinaiticus.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy. 2683) in Oxford.^[3]^[4]

Textual Variants

23:30: Rearranges the words αυτων κοινωνοι (their partners) to κοινωνοι αυτων ('partners of them').
23:37: Has variant spelling ορνιξ for ορνις (hen).
23:37: Originally omitted και from the text. Scribe added it later superlinearly between πτερυγας and ουκ.
23:38: According to the transcription from the University of Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research, the scribe omitted ερημος (desolate).^[5] According to the transcription of Philip Comfort and David Barrett however, the scribe included it.^[6]

References

^ Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts pp 609
^ ^a ^b Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
^ Institute for New Testament Textual Research
^ Philip Comfort and David Barrett, Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts, pp. 611