Papyrus 70 Explained

Papyrus 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ⁷⁰, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. ⁷⁰ has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.^[1]

Text The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I.^[2]

Present locationIt is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence)^[2] (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).^[3]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri

Images

• Oxyrhynchus 2384
• ⁷⁰ Matt. 11:26-27
• ⁷⁰ Matt. 12:4-5

Further reading

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXIV (London: 1957), pp. 4–5.
• M. Naldini, Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo, Prometeus 1 (Florence: 1975), pp. 195–200.
• Book: Comfort , Philip W. . Philip Comfort . David P. Barrett . The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Tyndale House Publishers . 2001 . Wheaton, Illinois . 473–477 . 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Notes and References

1. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 69.
2. 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.
3. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 26 August 2011. Münster.