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.
Nommé hors de la BibleManuscritc. 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.
- Découvert
- Egypt, 1930 — Acquired by Chester Beatty and the University of Michigan
- Conservé à
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; University of Michigan
- Langue
- Greek
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
Dating rests on handwriting and is given as a range; proposals run from the late second to the third century.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
One of the most important New Testament papyri, standard in textual criticism.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (1933–37)
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