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Name | P. Amherst 3b |
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Text | Epistle to the Hebrews 1 † |
Date | 3rd century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Egypt 1897 |
Now at | The Morgan Library & Museum |
Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b) |
Size | 20,8 cm x 23 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type ? |
Category | I |
Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum 𝔓12, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles ( palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet. [1]
The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines. [1]: 82 It has been written in a small uncial hand. [2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint. [1]
It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (ΘΣ).
The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system. [3]
It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices 𝔓46c a t v vgmss syrp. [4]
The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt. [1]
It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City. [3] [5] [6]