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Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by P8 or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 4:31-37; 5:2-9; 6:1-6.8-15. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 250-300 C.E.[1]
The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.[2]
Text of P8
The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[3]
The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.[4]
Housing Location
It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. no. 8683) in Berlin.[5]
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[1]Â Philip Wesley Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2019), P. 85, Vol. I
[2] C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament, p. 46.
[3] Kurt Aland; Barbara Aland (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.
[4] A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.
[5] “Handschriftenliste”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved Sunday, April 19, 2020.
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