P46 — Paul's letters, about AD 200
Paul's letters were copied and bound as a collection within roughly a century and a half of being written.
Außerbiblisch genanntHandschriftc. AD 175–225
Eighty-six surviving leaves of a codex containing most of Paul's letters, copied around AD 200 — within about 150 years of the letters themselves, and centuries before the great parchment Bibles. It shows the letters already circulating as a collection.
Romans, Hebrews, 1–2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians — bound as one book.
- Gefunden
- Egypt, 1930 — Acquired by Chester Beatty and the University of Michigan
- Heute in
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; University of Michigan
- Sprache
- Greek
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
Dating rests on handwriting and is given as a range; proposals run from the late second to the third century.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
One of the most important New Testament papyri, standard in textual criticism.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (1933–37)
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