Papyrus 𝔓⁷⁰

New Testament manuscript
Oxford fragment recto, Matt 11:26-27
Name	P. Oxy. 2384
Text	Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, andJ. W. B. Barns,OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5.
Size	15 x 25 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	carelessly written

Papyrus 70 is an early copy of theNew Testament inGreek. It is apapyrusmanuscript of theGospel of Matthew. It is designated by thesiglum𝔓⁷⁰ in theGregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. 𝔓⁷⁰ has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscriptpalaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of theAlexandrian text-type. Biblical scholarKurt Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it inCategory I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.^[2]

Present location

It is currently housed at theAshmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence inNational Archaeological Museum (Florence)^[2] (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).^[3]

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  Oxford fragment verso, Matt 12:4-5
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  Florence fragment a recto, Matt 2:22-3:1
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  Florence fragment a verso, Matt 2:13–16
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  Florence fragment b recto, Matt 24:3-6
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  Florence fragment b verso, Matt 24:12-15.

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri

• High Resolution Digital images of P. Oxy. XXIV online at the University of Oxford's "P. Oxy Online"
• Digital Images of𝔓¹⁰⁷ online at theCSNTM.

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts,E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns,Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXIV (London: 1957), pp. 4–5.
• M. Naldini,Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo, Prometeus 1 (Florence: 1975), pp. 195–200.
• Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001).The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 473–477.ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

• New Testament papyri
• 3rd-century biblical manuscripts
• Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
• National Archaeological Museum, Florence
• Gospel of Matthew papyri

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