Text Luke 4:1-2 Date 275-325 C.E. Script Greek Found Egypt Now at Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Cite K. Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), 261-265 Type Alexandrian text-type Category ?

Text Luke 4:1-2 Date 275-325 C.E. Script Greek Found Egypt Housing Location Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Cite K. Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), 261-265 Type Alexandrian text-type (?) Category ?

Papyrus 7 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), or ε 11 (von Soden), designated by P⁷,[1] (Shelf Number: F. 301 (KDA), 553p) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Luke 4:1-2. Possibly it is a patristic fragment (like e.g., P. Oxy. 405, a fragment of Against Heresies by Irenaeus containing Gospel of Matthew 3:16-17). The manuscript had been difficult to date palaeographically, because of its fragmentary condition. It had been assigned to the 4th–6th century (but should be dated to 275-325 C.E.).

Text of P7

The Greek text of this codex is too brief to classify (possibly it is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type). Aland did not place it in any of the Categories of New Testament manuscripts.[2] C. R. Gregory examined the manuscript in 1903 in Kiev.[3]

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1 ι̅ς̅Jesus δὲbut πλ[ήρηςfull π̅]ν̅ς̅of spirit ἁγίουholy ὑπέστρ[εψενturned under ἀπ]ὸfrom τοῦthe Ἰορδάνου,Jordan, [καὶand ἤγετοwas being led] ἐνin τῷthe π̅ν̅ι̅spirit ἐνin τῇthe ἐρ[ήμ]ῳdesolate [place] 2 ἡμέραςdays τεσσεράκονταforty πειραζόμενοςbeing tempted ὑπὸby τοῦthe διαβόλου.Devil.ΚαὶAnd οὐκnot ἔφαγενhe ate οὐδὲνnothing ἐνin ταῖςthe ἡμέραιςdays ἐκείναις,those, καὶand συντελεσθει[σῶνhaving been concluded αὐτῶνof them ἐπείνασεν].he got hungry.

NOTE: The burnt red is what can be deciphered at to what is on the papyrus and that within the square brackets [ … ] is a conjectural reconstruction of letters or words that were most likely in the manuscript.  Notice too, the nomina sacra, Jesus is contracted and Spirit is contracted twice with a bar above the contraction.

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[1] Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 46.

[2] Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 96.

[3] Handschriftenliste”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

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