Papyrus 108

Copy of the New Testament in Greek

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus **108**
New Testament manuscript

Name	P. Oxy. 4447
Sign	𝔓¹⁰⁸
Text	Gospel of John 17:23-24; 18:1-5
Date	2nd / 3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	W. E. H. Cockle, OP LXV (1998), pp. 16-18
Size	10.5 x 6.2 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Note	concurs with א

Papyrus 108 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓¹⁰⁸, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, containing verses 17:23-24 (the end of the Farewell Discourse) and 18:1-5 in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to the late 2nd or early 3rd Century CE.^[1] The manuscript is currently housed at the Papyrology Rooms (P. Oxy. 4447) of the Sackler Library at Oxford University.^[2]

Description

The original manuscript would've been around 14.5 cm x 18.5 cm, with 23 lines per page. The handwriting script is representative of the reformed Documentary style.^[3] The text is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Although small, the manuscript concurs with Codex Sinaiticus.^[1] It has itacistic error in John 17:23 (γεινωσκη instead of γινωσκη).^[4]

Textual Variants^[5]

John 17:24 (1)

δεδωκας : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ 𝔓⁶⁰ 𝔓⁶⁶ א‎ B C D

εδωκας : A

John 17:24 (2)

κακεινοι : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ 𝔓⁶⁰^(vid) 𝔓⁶⁶ א‎ B C D

{\mathfrak {M}}

και εκεινοι : A

John 17:24 (3)

εδωκας : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ B K N Γ Θ 209 al; Cl

δεδωκας : א‎ A C D

John 18:2 (1)

ιης (ιησους) : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ 𝔓⁵⁹ 𝔓⁶⁰ 𝔓⁶⁶ א‎ B L pc

ο ιης (ιησους) : A C D W Θ Ψ 0250 ƒ¹³ 33

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και ο ιης (ιησους) : Γ Δ 892^s al

John 18:2 (2)

εκει μετα των μαθητων αυτου : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ 𝔓⁶⁶^c א‎ A C D W

{\mathfrak {M}}

μετα των μαθητων αυτου εκει : B

εκει μετα των μαθητων : 𝔓⁶⁶*

John 18:3

και φαρισαιων : 𝔓¹⁰⁸^(vid) א‎¹ A C W Θ Ψ 0250 ƒ¹³ 33

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και εκ των φαρισαιων : א‎*^,2 D L 579 pc a aur

και των φαρισαιων : B 0140

John 18:4 (1)

δε : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ א‎ D L W f¹ 33 565 pc it sy^p co

ουν : 𝔓⁶⁰^(vid) A B C Θ Ψ 0250

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aurc e vg sy^h

John 18:4 (2)

ειδως : 𝔓¹⁰⁸ א‎ L W ƒ¹

{\mathfrak {M}}

ιδως : A C

ειδων : D

John 18:4 (3)

εξελθων ειπεν : 𝔓¹⁰⁸^(vid) א‎ A C³ L W Θ Ψ 0250 ƒ¹³ 33

{\mathfrak {M}}

εξηλθεν και λεγει : B C^* D ƒ¹ 565 pc lat

εξηλθεν εξω και λεγει : 𝔓⁶⁰

References

^ ^a ^b Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
^ Comfort, P. W., & Barrett, D. P. (2001). The text of the earliest New Testament Greek manuscripts, pp. 650
^ Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John, Biblica 85 (2004), p. 403.
^ Taken from NA27 Edition Apparatus and http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/nt-transcripts Archived 2015-06-13 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Images

P.Oxy.LXIV 4447 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
Image from 𝔓¹⁰⁸ recto, John 17:23-24
Image from 𝔓¹⁰⁸ verso, John 18:1-5

Official registration

"Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved April 9, 2008

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Gospel of John

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Chapters	John 1 Book of Signs 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Book of Glory 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Epilogue: 21
Verses	John 1:1–20; 23; 25–33; 35–42 3:16 14:6 18:38 20:1–31