Papyrus 18
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Papyrus 18 (in the GregoryβAland numbering), designated by π18, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript containing the beginning of the Book of Revelation. It contains only Revelation 1:4β7. It is written against the fibres of the papyrus. On the other side of the papyrus is the ending of the book of Exodus. It is unclear whether the papyrus was a scroll of Exodus later reused for a copy of Revelation or a leaf from a codex with miscellaneous contents.[1] The two sides of the papyrus were copied in different hands, but the original editor of the papyrus did not think there was a great interval of time between the copying of the two sides. He assigned the Exodus to the third century and the Revelation to the third or early fourth century.[2]
New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1079 |
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Text | Book of Revelation 1 β |
Date | 3rd/4th century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Egypt |
Now at | British Library |
Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII, (London 1911), pp. 13 14 |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | I |