| New Testament manuscript | |
_verso_John_6%2c_8-12.jpg) Verso John 6:8-12 | |
| Name | P. Oxy. 1596 |
|---|---|
| Text | John 6 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Oxyrhynchus,Egypt |
| Now at | Collection of Gifford Combs |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell &A. S. Hunt,Oxyrynchus Papyri XIII, (London 1919), pp. 8-10 |
| Size | 10 cm by 5 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
| Hand | semi-uncial |
| Note | close toא |
Papyrus 28 (in theGregory-Aland numbering), designated by𝔓28, is an early copy of theNew Testament inGreek. It is apapyrusmanuscript of theGospel of John, it contains only one leaf with the text of the Gospel of John 6:8-12.17-22. The manuscriptpaleographically has been assigned to the late 3rd century.[1]
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The text is written in medium-sizedsemi-uncial.[2] It is a single leaf, written in 12 lines per page (originally 25 lines). It uses thenomina sacra, but incomplete. The handwriting is quite similar to P. Oxy. 1358. Originally it had 13 cm by 20 cm.[1] Text is written in 25 lines per page.[2]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of theAlexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian).Aland placed it inCategory I. According to Aland it represents a "normal text".[3] This manuscript displays a closest agreement with𝔓75 (in 7 out of 10 variants).[1] According to Grenfell and Hunt it is closer toVaticanus than toSinaiticus. Only in one case it supportsCodex Alexandrinus against Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (John 6:11).[2] Grenfell and Hunt noted that text is not "very correctly spelled". It has five unique readings. In John 6:10 it has πεντακισ]χιλειοι, ελεβεν instead of ελαβεν, in 6:19 ενγυς instead of εγγυς, in 6:20 φοβεισθαι instead of φοβεισθε, in 6:22 ιδεν instead of ειδεν.[4]
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The manuscript was found together with 3rd-4th century documents.[2]
It was housed at thePacific School of Religion (Pap. 2) inBerkeley, California[3][5] until it was sold in 2015 to a private collector, Gifford Combs, and is now housed in Los Angeles (Collection of Gifford Combs).[6][7]
