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Text
  
1 Thessalonians 1-2 †

Script
  
Greek

Date
  
3rd century

Found
  
Egypt

Papyrus 65

Now at
  
National Archaeological Museum (Florence)

Cite
  
V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 65, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty. According to Comfort P 49 and P 65 came from the same manuscript.

Location

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).

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  • References

    Papyrus 65 Wikipedia