Papyrus 140

Papyrus 140
New Testament manuscript
NamePSI inv. 1971
Sign𝔓140
TextActs 7:54-55 (recto); 7:57-58 (verso).
Date5th century
ScriptGreek
FoundPossibly Oxyrhynchus
Now atPapyrological Institute, Florence, Italy
CiteFrancesca Maltomini et al (ed), Firenze University Press (2018). Papyri of the Italian Society, vol. XVII, 3-5.
Size2.8 x 4.3 cm

Papyrus 140 (designated as 𝔓140 in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is a small surviving portion of a handwritten copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts. The text survives on a single fragment of a codex, the recto containing the initial letters of 4 lines of the second column of a page, and the verso the final letters of 4 lines (plus minimal traces of a fifth) of the first column of the next page. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the fifth century.

Location

𝔓140 is housed at the Papyrological Institute in Florence, Italy.

Textual Variants

επ α̣υ̣τ̣ο̣[ν πληρηϲ
δε ϋπ̣[αρχων
πν̅ι α̣[γιω ατε-
νιϲα[ϲ ειϲ τον

demonstrating a transposition of πληρηϲ and ϋπ̣αρχων, and a change from the genitive πν̅ϲ α̣γιου to the dative πν̅ι α̣γιω, as compared to the reading in most manuscripts of Acts.

οµοθ]υµαδο[ν
επ αυ]τον εκ-
βαλον]τεϲ δε
εξω τη]ϲ πολε
ωϲ ελιθο]β̣[ολουν

showing the omission of και at the beginning of verse 58.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1654 NT, Acta Apostolorum 7, 54-55; 57-58. Papyri of the Italian Society, vol. XVII, 3-5". Florence, Italy: Firenze University Press. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 15 August 2023.