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Date
  
7th century

Found
  
Egypt

Script
  
Papyrus 79

Text
  
Now at
  
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Cite
  
K. Treu, Neue neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung, APF 18 (1966), pp. 37-48.

Papyrus 79 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 79, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The surviving texts of Hebrews are verses 10:10-12,28-30.

The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 7th century.

The text was not corrected. The letters have Coptic shape.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

Location

It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. no. 6774) in Berlin.

Images

  • Leaf from P 79 recto
  • Leaf from P 79 verso
  • References

    Papyrus 79 Wikipedia


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