Papyrus 7

New Testament papyrus fragment of the Gospel of Luke in Greek

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus 𝔓⁷
New Testament manuscript
Text	Luke 4 †
Date	4th–6th century AD
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	?

Papyrus 7 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), or ε 11 (von Soden), designated by 𝔓⁷,^[1] 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, 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 (or even the 3rd century).

Text

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 Categories of New Testament manuscripts.^[2]

C. R. Gregory examined the manuscript in 1903 in Kiev.^[3]

Location

It is currently housed at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Petrov 553) in Kyiv.^[2]^[4]

References

^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 46.
^ ^a ^b 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. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament, p. 46.
^ "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.