Papyrus 47

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus 𝔓
New Testament manuscript

Text	Book of Revelation 9:10-17:2 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Chester Beatty Library
Cite	F. G. Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III, (London, 1934).
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Note	close to Sinaiticus, 0308

Papyrus 47 (P. Chester Beatty III), designated by siglum 𝔓 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri. Manuscripts among the Chester Beatty Papyri have had several places of discovery associated with them, the most likely being the Faiyum. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been dated to the early 3rd century CE. The codex contains text from the Book of Revelation chapters 9 through 17. It is currently housed at the Chester Beatty Library (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in Dublin.

In November 2020, the CSNTM in conjunction with Hendrickson Publishers released a new 1:1 high-resolution imaged facsimile edition of 𝔓 on black and white backgrounds, along with 𝔓 and 𝔓.

Text

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), written with black ink on papyrus. The manuscript is quite fragmented, containing the text of Revelation 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; and 16:17-17:2. The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (the text-types are groups of different manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups, which are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine). Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a Normal text, and placed it in Category I.

The text of this manuscript is closest to Codex Sinaiticus (א‎), and together they are witnesses for one of the early textual types of the Book of Revelation. Another type is represented by the manuscripts Papyrus 115 (𝔓), Codex Alexandrinus (A), and Codex Ephraemi (C). The text in 𝔓-א‎ is considered to be an inferior witness to the text of Revelation as opposed to that of 𝔓-A-C.

References

See main Chester Beatty Papyri page for full info.
P. Orsini; W. Clarysse (2012). "Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates: A Critique of Theological Palaeography". Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. 88 (4): 470.
^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
CSNTM, CSNTM and Hendrickson Publishers to Publish Third-Century New Testament Papyri Facsimiles
Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
^ Comfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8054-3145-2.

Kenyon, Frederic G. (1934). The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible: Fasciculus III - Pauline Epistles and Revelation (Text) (PDF). London: Emery Walker Limited. pp. xi–xiii, 17–35.
Kenyon, Frederic G. (1936). The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible: Fasciculus III - Revelation (Plates) (PDF). London: Emery Walker Limited.
Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 335–351. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
Malik, Peter (2017). P. Beatty III (𝔓): The Codex, Its Scribe, and Its Text. New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents. Vol. 52. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34043-5.

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v t e Book of Revelation
Bible chapters (New Testament)	Revelation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Places	Armageddon Asia Babylon Egypt Ephesus Euphrates Jerusalem Laodicea Patmos Pergamum Philadelphia Sardis Smyrna Sodom Thyatira
Persons	Asher Balak Balaam Benjamin David Gad Issachar Jesus Christ Jezebel John Joseph Judah Levi Manasseh Michael Naphtali Reuben Simeon Zebulun
Events/ Terms/ Phrases	Abaddon/Apollyon Alpha and Omega Beast Book of Life Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Four Living Creatures Lake of Fire Last Judgment Millennialism New Jerusalem Number of the Beast Seven bowls Seven churches of Asia Seven seals Seven trumpets Son of Man Three Angels' Messages Whore of Babylon Woman of the Apocalypse Wormwood
Interpretation	Futurist Historicist Idealist Preterist by John Foxe
Related	Authorship John of Patmos Textual variants
Manuscripts	Papyrus 18 24 43 47 85 98 115 Crawford Aramaic New Testament manuscript
Sources	Greek Text Latin Vulgate Wycliffe Version King James Version American Standard Version World English Version

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