Papyrus 8 Explained

Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 4:31–37; 5:2–9; 6:1–6.8–15. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.^[1]

The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1]

The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.^[3]

Location

It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. no. 8683) in Berlin.^{[1] [4]}

See also

• Acts of the Apostles: chapter 4, 5, and 6
• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), pp. 1087–1090.
• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung . 1908 . Leipzig . 46 .
• A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97–119.

External links

• Digital image of P8 at CSNTM

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 . 96 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. [C. R. Gregory]
3. A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.
4. Web site: Handschriftenliste. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 23 August 2011. Münster.