New Testament manuscript | |
Name | P. Oxy. 2384 |
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Text | Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 â |
Date | 3rd century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Egypt |
Now at | Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence) |
Cite | E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5. |
Size | 15 x 25 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | I |
Hand | carelessly written |
Papyrus 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by đ70, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. đ70 has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a âstrict textâ, and placed it in Category I.[2]
It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence)[2] (PSI 3407 â formerly CNR 419, 420).[3]