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Papyrus 54

Papyrus 54

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus 54 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ๐”“54, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (or 6th century).

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It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, it contains only fragments of James 2:16-18.22-26; 3:2-4.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it, with some hesitation, in Category III (possibly II).[1]

It is currently housed at the Princeton University Library (P. Princ. 15; earlier Garrett Depots 7742) in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2]

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References

  1. [1]
    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. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. [2]
    "Liste Handschriften". Mรผnster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Further reading

  • Edward Harris Kase, Papyrus in the Princeton University Collections II (Princeton: 1936), pp. 1โ€“3.

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