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Name	P. Oxy. 1078
Text	Hebrews 9 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt, Lord Crawford
Now at	Cambridge University
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII, (London, 1911), pp. 11-13
Size	14.2 x 8.4 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 17 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ${\mathfrak {P))$ ¹⁷, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews, but only contains verses 9:12-19. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the middle of the third century (c. 250 C.E.).

Description

**Grenfell and Hunt**

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

The leaf is in fragmentary condition (originally 19 by 25 cm). The text fills in where Codex Vaticanus is vacant (from Hebrews 9:14).

The Nomina Sacra are used throughout. The scribe used marks for punctuation between verses 12 and 13, and between 15 and 16. It has no iotacistic errors.

Note: * Iotacism or itacism is the process of vowel shift by which a number of vowels and diphthongs converged towards the pronunciation in post-classical Greek and Modern Greek. The term “iotacism” refers to the letter iota, the original sign for, with which these vowels came to merge.

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

It was discovered by Lord Crawford in Egypt. The text was edited in 1911 by Grenfell and Hunt.

Currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Add. 5893) in Cambridge.

Attribution: This article incorporates some text from the public domain: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Edward D. Andrews

REFERENCES

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. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earlies of New Testament Greek Manuscripts (2001), p. 101.
Frederic G. Kenyon, “Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament”, London2, 1912, p. 44.
B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII. London. pp. 11–13.
“Handschriftenliste”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.