Papyrus 65

Papyrus 𝔓⁶⁵
New Testament manuscript
Text	1 Thessalonians 1-2 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁶⁵, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.^[1]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty.^[1] According to Philip Comfort, 𝔓⁴⁹ and 𝔓⁶⁵ came from the same manuscript.^[2]^[3]

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).^[1]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68-69.
^ Klaus Wachtel, Klaus Witte, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: Gal., Eph., Phil., Kol., 1. u. 2. Thess., 1. u. 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Hebr, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, p. LXI.
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.