Papyrus 65 Explained

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ⁶⁵, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.

Text The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty.^[1] According to Philip Comfort, ⁴⁹ and ⁶⁵ came from the same manuscript.^{[2] [3]}

Location It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).^{[1] [4]}

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Brent Nongbri, "A Papyrus Codex of Paul’s Letters in Greek: Another Look at PSI XIV 1373 (P65) and P.Yale I 2 + II 86 (P49)," Novum Testamentum 66 (2024), pp. 499–514, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10082
• Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7.
• Naldini, Documenti, no. 17.

Images

• Papyrus 65

Notes and References

1. Book: Aland . Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 100 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.
3. Klaus Wachtel, Klaus Witte, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: Gal., Eph., Phil., Kol., 1. u. 2. Thess., 1. u. 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Hebr, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. LXI.
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 26 August 2011. Münster.