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.
Nombrado fuera de la BibliaManuscritoc. 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.
- Hallado
- Egypt, 1930 — Acquired by Chester Beatty and the University of Michigan
- Se conserva en
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; University of Michigan
- Lengua
- Greek
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
Dating rests on handwriting and is given as a range; proposals run from the late second to the third century.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
One of the most important New Testament papyri, standard in textual criticism.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (1933–37)
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