Papyrus 12

Papyrus 12 is an early papyrus manuscript copy of the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews verse in Greek. It is designated by the siglum in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and α 1033 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. 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.

Description The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines. It has been written in a small uncial hand. On the reverse side (known as the verso) of this manuscript another writer has penned according to the Greek Septuagint.

+ Text Greek Text Transcription Transliteration English Translation πολυμερως κ(αι) πολυ[τρο]πως polymenōs k(ai) poly[tro]pōs In many parts and in many ways παλε ο λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατραpale ho Theos lalēs[a]s to[is p]atra long ago God spoke to the fathe- σ[ιν] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φ]ητα[ις] s[in] hēm[ō]n en tois pro[ph]ēta[is] rs our by the prophets

It has an error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι, palai, meaning "long ago, formerly"), and includes the nomen sacrum for Theos, "God". 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. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system. It supports the textual variant (hēmōn, "our") as in codices a t v vg syr.NA26, p. 563.

History

The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by papyrologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in the Fayum, Egypt. It is currently housed at the Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.

Papyrus 12

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