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Text
  
Acts 18-19 †

Script
  
Greek

Now at
  
University of Michigan

Date
  
ca. 220

Found
  
Egypt

Papyrus 38

Cite
  
H. A. Sanders."A Papyrus Fragment of Acts in the Michigan Collection". , HTR, vol. 20. 1927, pp. 1-19.

Papyrus 38 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 38, is an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 18:27-19:6.12-16. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century.

Although the text is quite short, the Greek text of this codex has been called a representative of the Western text-type. Aland named it as Free text and placed in Category IV. The text of this manuscript is related to Codex Bezae.

The manuscript was purchased in Cairo in 1924.

It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Inv. 1571) in Ann Arbor.

References

Papyrus 38 Wikipedia
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