Papyrus 39, P39

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First Composed: 20 April 2000

Last Updated: 31 October 2004


Name

Papyrus 39 (No. 1780), P39

Date

3rd Century CE.

Provenance

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.

Size

About 25.6 cm. x 8 cm. Click here to see the image.

This is a leaf from a papyrus codex.

Contents

John 8:14-22.

Textual Character

P39 agrees with B. The Alands consider P39 to have a "strict" text.

Writing

The handwriting is a 'biblical' type, large and upright.

Location

Ambrose Swasey Library, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, NY.


References

[1] B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XV, 1922, 7 ff. (No. 1780).

The New Testament Manuscripts