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Name
  
P. Oxy. 402

Date
  
3rd century

Size
  
8 x 5.2 c, [11 x 15]

Script
  
Greek language

Text
  
1 John 4 †

Now at
  
Houghton Library

Originally published
  
1903

Found
  
Oxyrhynchus

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Cite
  
Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (1903), pp. 2-3

Similar
  
Papyrus 4, Papyrus 75, Papyrus 3, Papyrus 66, Papyrus 46

Papyrus 9 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by P 9, and named Oxyrhynchus papyri 402, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of John, dating paleographically to the early 3rd century.

Contents

Description

Papyrus P 9 was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. Papyrus P 9 is currently housed at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Semitic Museum Inv. 3736, Cambridge (Massachusetts).

The surviving text is a fragment of one leaf containing verses 4:11-12,14-17, written in one column per page. The original codex had 16 lines per page. The text on the manuscript was written very carelessly, evidenced by the crude and irregular handwriting, and the manuscript contains some unintelligible spellings.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I. The manuscript is too brief for certainty.

References

Papyrus 9 Wikipedia
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