Papyrus 72

Papyrus 72

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
1 Peter 5:12–end and 2 Peter 1:1–5 on facing pages of Papyrus Bodmer VIII
Name	Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX
Sign	${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$72
Text	Jude, 1 Peter, 2 Peter
Date	3rd/4th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Cologny/Geneva; Vatican City, Bibl. Bodmeriana; Bibl. Vaticana
Size	14.5 by 16 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	documentary hand
Note	resembles ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$50

Papyrus 72 (${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁷², Papyrus Bodmer VII-VIII) is the designation used by textual critics of the New Testament to describe portions of the so-called Bodmer Miscellaneous codex, namely the letters of Jude, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter. These books seem to have been copied by the same scribe, and the handwriting has been paleographically assigned to the 3rd or 4th century.^[1]

Although the letters of Jude (P.Bodmer VII) and 1-2 Peter (P.Bodmer VIII) in this codex do not form a single continuous text, scholars still tend to refer to these three texts as a single early New Testament papyrus.^[2]

Description[]

Papyrus 72 is the earliest known manuscript of these epistles, though a few verses of Jude are in a fragment ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}.}$⁷⁸ (P. Oxy. 2684).^[3]

P.Bodmer VII (Jude) and P.Bodmer VIII (1-2 Peter) form part of a single book (the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex). This book appeared on the antiquities market in Egypt and was bought by the Swiss collector Martin Bodmer.^[a] The same scribe who copied P.Bodmer VII and VIII is also thought to have copied P.Bodmer X and XI.^[5]

The manuscript contains the usual nomina sacra for Messiah, Jesus, God, Lord, Spirit, Father, plus a few non-standard ones: ΔΥΜΙ (power), Σαρρα (Sarah), Αβρααμ (Abraham), Νωε (Noah), Μιχαης (Archangel Michael), and Ενωχ (Enoch).

A facsimile edition of Bodmer Papyrus VIII was published in 2007 by Testimonio Compañía Editorial.^[6]

Text[]

1 Peter 2:7-12; 2:12-17 in Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Aland in 1-2 Peter it has normal text, in Jude free text, both with certain peculiarities. Aland placed it into I Category. It is close to the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus.^[7]

See also[]

• List of New Testament papyri
• Bodmer Library

Notes[]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. The Text of the New Testament. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
• Beare, FW (1961),The Text of I Peter in Papyrus 72, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 80, No.3, pp. 253–260.
• Wasserman, Tommy. "Papyrus 72 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex," New Testament Studies 51, (2005), 137–154. doi:10.1017/S0028688505000081
• Jones, Brice C. "The Bodmer 'Miscellaneous' Codex and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex MS 193: A New Proposal." JGRChJ (2011-2012), 9-20.
• Nongbri, Brent. "The Construction of P.Bodmer VIII and the Bodmer 'Composite' or 'Miscellaneous' Codex." Novum Testamentum 58 (2016), 394–410. doi:10.1163/15685365-12341535
• Kubo, Sakae. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$72 and the Codex Vaticanus. Studies and Documents 27. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965.
• Strickland, Phillip David. 2017. The Curious Case of ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$72: What an Ancient Manuscrtipt Can Tell us about the Epistles of Peter and Jude. Journal of the Evangelical Society 60.4:781-792.
• Images available for viewing at CSNTM, ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$72".