| New Testament manuscript | |
_recto_1_Thess_1%2c_1-2%2c_1.jpg) Recto, 1 Thess 1:1-2:1 | |
| 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 theGregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓65, is a copy of theNew Testament inGreek. It is apapyrusmanuscript of theFirst 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]
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The Greek text of this codex is a representative of theAlexandrian text-type.Aland placed it inCategory I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty.[1] According toPhilip Comfort,𝔓49 and 𝔓65 came from the same manuscript.[2][3]
It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence inNational Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).[1][4]
