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Papyrus 83

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Date
  
6th century

Found
  
Egypt

Script
  
Greek

Text
  
Gospel of Matthew 20; 23-24 †

Now at
  
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Cite
  
M.-L. Lakmann, ‘Neutestamentliche Texte aus Khirbet Mird. P83 und 0244’, ETL 85/4 (2009), 467–478.

Papyrus 83 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 83, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 20:23-25,30-31; 23:39-24:1,6. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 6th century. It is among only very few New Testament texts on papyrus recovered outside Egypt (in this case from Khirbet Mird in the Judean desert).

Text

The Greek text of this codex probably is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.

Location

It is currently housed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Library (P. A. M. Khirbet Mird 16, 29). Transcriptions and photographs have been published by Lakmann.

References

Papyrus 83 Wikipedia
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