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.
Citado fora da BíbliaManuscritoc. 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.
- Encontrado
- Egypt, 1930 — Acquired by Chester Beatty and the University of Michigan
- Conservado em
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; University of Michigan
- Língua
- Greek
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
Dating rests on handwriting and is given as a range; proposals run from the late second to the third century.
Como os historiadores o usam
One of the most important New Testament papyri, standard in textual criticism.
Na Escritura
Ligado a
Fontes
- Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (1933–37)
Por enquanto estes textos estão em inglês. As traduções virão.